[GitHub] [hbase] taklwu commented on a change in pull request #297: HBASE-22395 Document RC voting guidelines in ref guide

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taklwu commented on a change in pull request #297: HBASE-22395 Document RC voting guidelines in ref guide
URL: https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/297#discussion_r292592896
 
 

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 File path: src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/developer.adoc
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 @@ -876,7 +876,18 @@ Regards the latter, run `mvn apache-rat:check` to verify all files are suitably
 See link:http://search-hadoop.com/m/DHED4dhFaU[HBase, mail # dev - On recent discussion clarifying ASF release policy]
 for how we arrived at this process.
 
-To help with the release verfication `hbase-vote.sh` shell script is available under `dev-support` directory of HBase source. Following are the usage details.
+To help with the release verification, please follow the guideline below and vote based on the your verification.
+
+=== Baseline Verifications for Voting Release Candidates
+
+Although contributors have their own checklist for verifications, the following items are usually used for voting on release candidates.
+
+* CHANGES.md if any
+* RELEASENOTES.md (release notes) if any
+* Generated API compatibility report
+** For what should be compatible please refer the [versioning guideline](https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.versioning), especially for items with marked as high severity
 
 Review comment:
   fixed, thanks for calling out

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