svn commit: r189689 - /forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt

[cr...@apache.org]

Author: crossley
Date: Wed Jun  8 19:48:35 2005
New Revision: 189689

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=189689&view=rev
Log:
Clarify the creation of release branch.

Modified:
    forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt

Modified: forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt?rev=189689&r1=189688&r2=189689&view=diff
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--- forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt (original)
+++ forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt Wed Jun  8 19:48:35 2005
@@ -99,13 +99,15 @@
 
  - Understand how to sign releases and generate MD5 and PGP.
    http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SigningReleases
+   Create the *.md5 and *.asc files.
 
  - Create a maintenance branch in SVN with
     svn copy -m "Create the x.y release branch from r#####" \
     https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk \
     https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/branches/forrest_xy_branch
    where 'xy' is a compact form of the version (e.g. 04, 041, 05)
-   and 'r#####' is the SVN revision number that the branch was created from.
+   and 'r#####' is the SVN revision number that the branch was created from
+   which was the revision that the release candidates were generated from.
    See http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/branches/
 
  - Test the actual distribution on various platforms.
@@ -208,7 +210,7 @@
  - Remove old dist files from the /www/www.apache.org/dist/forrest/ directory.
    They have already been archived at archive.apache.org/dist/forrest/
 
- - Do some Jira administration (need to be in the jira-administrators grorp):
+ - Do some Jira administration (need to be in the jira-administrators group):
  - Tweak the "release" versions via "admin" interface at our Jira.
    0.7-dev is renamed 0.7 and 0.8 becomes 0.8-dev
  - Review the Issues for the old version and move any Incomplete ones up.