I have created a tez-0.4.0-incubating release candidate (rc1). This includes license and notice files missing from rc0 release artifacts (the javadoc artifact has these files under resources/META-INF instead of directly under META-INF)
GIT source tag: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-tez/repo?p=incubator-tez.git;a=log;h=refs/tags/release-0.4.0-incubating-rc1 (git commit 145c730c8d1cea863185b2a3354b19f2ab21addd) Staging site: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/tez/0.4.0-incubating-rc1 (svn revision 4929) Nexus Staging URL: *https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachetez-1005/ <https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachetez-1005/>* PGP release keys: http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x477E02D33DD51430 KEYS file available at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/tez/KEYS List of issues fixed in the release: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEZ/fixforversion/12326283/ Also available in CHANGES.txt within the release tarball. Vote will be open for at least 72 hours ( until the required number of IPMC votes are obtained ). [ ] +1 approve [ ] +0 no opinion [ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why) For folks not familiar with vetting a release, please refer to http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#check-list Thanks - Sid