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Instructions for Apache-Reload Release Manager

0. Ask the PMC to verify that you have the appropriate CPAN permissions
   on dev@perl.

   If this is your first release, ask someone with APML karma on PAUSE
   to verify you have the appropriate permissions.  Likely someone on
   the PMC can do this.

  a. login into https://pause.perl.org
  b. menu click: Select Mailinglist/Action
  c. choose APML and Change Permissions and click go
  d. click 3.1 Make somebody else co-maintainer
  e. choose the modules to give the perms to
     type the username of the new co-maintainer
  f. if you happen to know that packages were added this release,
     make sure you give the correct permissions to them.
     % MAINTAINER_BUILDING_RELEASE=1 perl Makefile.PL

1. 'make disttest' - to make sure nothing is missing from the manifest.
   Now 'make dist', and test this generated package (not svn)
   with as many configurations as possible on as many platforms
   as possible.

  a. edit ./Changes:
     - change -dev to -rc\d+ starting with -rc1

  b. commit Changes
     % svn ci -m "0.14 rc1" Changes

  c. nuke any preinstalled Apache-Reload libs and run 'make test'

  d. test that you can 'make install' and then run 'make test' again

  e. test whether we are still 100% OK on systems with no LWP:
     % APACHE_TEST_PRETEND_NO_LWP=1 make test

2. once confident that the package is good, commit the release candidate
   to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/perl and post 24 hour-ish
   candidate alert to the various lists

     o dev/perl.apache.org
     o modperl/perl.apache.org

   (or maybe longer to give most people a chance to catch up). no need
   to tag this package

   Subject: [RELEASE CANDIDATE] Apache-Reload 0.14 RC\d+

  a. if problems are detected during stage 2, repeat stages 1 and 2.

3. when the package has been reported to be good, prepare a new
   package to be released

  a. edit ./Changes
     - remove -rc\d+
     - add release date

  b. rerun:
     % perl Makefile.PL
     make sure tag looks right
     % make -n tag

  c. commit Changes
     % svn ci -m "0.14 release" Changes

  d. tag