Prerequisites

Before starting the process, you need to ensure several things before proceed to create a release.

You need to have the latest pinot code base in your local machine
You need to ensure that you have the access to Apache Repository Manager. Try to log in with Apache LDAP credential.
You need to check out Apache staging & release distribution directories for Pinot.
```
svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/pinot pinot-release-dist
svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/pinot pinot-dev-dist
```
- https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/pinot: this is where the actual release (PMC approved) will be placed. Do not upload anything here until voting from both dev@pinot and general@incubator pass.
- https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/pinot: this is where we put the release candidates and link for this will be used for reference during the voting process.

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