Releases "Proper"
There's an official write-up of the process for publishing maven artifacts at http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html.
There's also a fantastic write-up (so Mark tells us) about how to release using the stuff inherited from org.apache:apache-parent:7 (as we do). It was put together by Donald Woods, and can be found at http://incubator.apache.org/bval/cwiki/release-process.html
Nour's notes
I found these resources as start to get a hands on experience about
Apache release process.
General release process rules:
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1- http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html
2- http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
Podling release management:
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1- http://incubator.apache.org/incubation/Incubation_Policy.html#Releases
2- http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html