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Step | Tasks | Goal | Actual | Comments |
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| Code Freeze and release start | Track ongoing PRs | 9/3 6pm PST | ||
| Cut the release branch | Check license headers | |||
| Make code changes with necessary version updates | 9/3 6pm PST | |||
| Cut the release branch | from v1.5.x branch | |||
| Update the version on master | ||||
| Test the release and tag the release | Nightly test, Jenkins CI | 9/4 | ||
| RAT check | checked by CI | |||
| Tag RC0 | 9/4 | |||
| Package artifacts and validate | Create release artifacts | 9/5 | ||
| Validate release package | ||||
| Test release package | ||||
| Scala release process | ||||
| Begin Apache voting | Start vote on dev@ | 9/7 | ||
| Start vote on general@ | ||||
| Finalizing and posting the release | Create the final release tag on github | |||
| Rename, resign and upload the src tar to final dir | ||||
| Update the website using tag | ||||
| Release the official pip package | ||||
| Release the official docker images | ||||
| After 24 hrs, validate the packages are uploaded | ||||
| Draft the offical announce email and review | ||||
| Send out the email on announce@ | ||||
| Update the apache blog | ||||
| update the aws blog | ||||
| send internal announcement | ||||
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