[commons-daemon] 01/02: Add more detailed notes on editing VOTE.txt for release

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commit 3b4b9a6cdcd1f6010a7f7b551577c4138b99e3b8
Author: Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 19 08:03:43 2021 +0000

    Add more detailed notes on editing VOTE.txt for release
---
 HOWTO-RELEASE.txt | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/HOWTO-RELEASE.txt b/HOWTO-RELEASE.txt
index 48f8a71..aea5f8f 100644
--- a/HOWTO-RELEASE.txt
+++ b/HOWTO-RELEASE.txt
@@ -120,6 +120,19 @@ Generate the release vote text with:
 
 mvn commons-release:vote-txt -Dcommons.nexus.repo.id=<repository-id>
 
+The following manual changes will be required to the generated VOTE.txt:
+- remove ALv2 header
+- transfer email headers to "To" and "Subject"
+- edit the first line to reflect what has actually changed
+- Correct the link to the Maven artifacts ".../org/apache/commons/..." ->
+  ".../commons-daemon/..."
+  https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecommons-1538/org/apache/commons/commons-daemon/1.2.4
+- remove comments above the hashes, hashes for .asc files, hashes for the
+  tests.jar and test-sources.jar and the comment that .asc hashes aren't
+  required
+- if the site hasn't been added to dist, remove the sections on changes, site,
+  CLIRR, JApiCmp and RAT
+
 
 Updating the site
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