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<p>For a release vote to pass, a minimum of three positive binding votes and more
positive binding votes than negative binding votes MUST be cast.
Releases may not be vetoed. Votes cast by PMC members are binding, however,
non-binding votes are greatly encouraged and a sign of a healthy project.</p>
</section>
<section id="running-the-release-verification">
<h2>Running the release verification<a class="headerlink" href="#running-the-release-verification" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<section id="linux-and-macos">
<h3>Linux and macOS<a class="headerlink" href="#linux-and-macos" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>In order to run the verification script either for the source release or the
binary artifacts see the following guidelines:</p>
<section id="required-source-verification">
<h4>Required source verification<a class="headerlink" href="#required-source-verification" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h4>
<p>Individuals are REQUIRED to download all signed source code packages onto their
own hardware, validate all cryptographic signatures, compile as provided,
and test the result on their own platform in order to cast a +1 vote.</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span># this will create and automatically clean up a temporary directory for the verification environment and will run the source verification
TEST_DEFAULT=0 TEST_SOURCE=1 verify-release-candidate.sh $VERSION $RC_NUM
# to verify only certain implementations use the TEST_DEFAULT=0 and TEST_* variables
# here are a couple of examples, but see the source code for the available options
TEST_DEFAULT=0 TEST_CPP=1 verify-release-candidate.sh $VERSION $RC_NUM # only C++ tests
TEST_DEFAULT=0 TEST_CPP=1 TEST_PYTHON=1 verify-release-candidate.sh $VERSION $RC_NUM # C++ and Python tests
TEST_DEFAULT=0 TEST_INTEGRATION_CPP=1 TEST_INTEGRATION_JAVA=1 verify-release-candidate.sh $VERSION $RC_NUM # C++ and Java integration tests
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="binary-verification">
<h4>Binary verification<a class="headerlink" href="#binary-verification" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h4>
<p>The binaries are generated from the source that has been verified. Those binaries are
tested on CI but can be tested locally for further validation. It is not necessary to
test them in order to cast a positive vote.</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span># this will create and automatically clean up a temporary directory for the verification environment and will run the binary verification
TEST_DEFAULT=0 TEST_BINARIES=1 dev/release/verify-release-candidate.sh $VERSION $RC_NUM
# to verify certain binaries use the TEST_* variables as:
TEST_DEFAULT=0 TEST_WHEELS=1 verify-release-candidate.sh $VERSION $RC_NUM # only Wheels
TEST_DEFAULT=0 TEST_APT=1 verify-release-candidate.sh $VERSION $RC_NUM # only APT packages
TEST_DEFAULT=0 TEST_YUM=1 verify-release-candidate.sh $VERSION $RC_NUM # only YUM packages
TEST_DEFAULT=0 TEST_JARS=1 verify-release-candidate.sh $VERSION $RC_NUM # only JARS
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<section id="windows">
<h3>Windows<a class="headerlink" href="#windows" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>In order to run the verification script on Windows you have to download
the source tarball from the SVN dist system that you wish to verify:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">dev</span>\<span class="n">release</span>\<span class="n">verify</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">release</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">candidate</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">bat</span> <span class="o">%</span><span class="n">VERSION</span><span class="o">%</span> <span class="o">%</span><span class="n">RC_NUM</span><span class="o">%</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<section id="system-configuration-instructions">
<h2>System Configuration Instructions<a class="headerlink" href="#system-configuration-instructions" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>You will need some tools installed like curl, git, etcetera.</p>
<section id="ubuntu">
<h3>Ubuntu<a class="headerlink" href="#ubuntu" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>You might have to install some packages on your system. The following
utility script can be used to set your Ubuntu system. This wil install
the required packages to perform a source verification on a clean
Ubuntu:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># From the arrow clone</span>
<span class="n">sudo</span> <span class="n">dev</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">release</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">setup</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">ubuntu</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sh</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="macos-arm">
<h3>macOS ARM<a class="headerlink" href="#macos-arm" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># From the arrow clone</span>
<span class="n">brew</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">gpg</span>
<span class="n">brew</span> <span class="n">bundle</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">file</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">cpp</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">Brewfile</span>
<span class="n">brew</span> <span class="n">bundle</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">file</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">c_glib</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">Brewfile</span>
<span class="n">brew</span> <span class="n">uninstall</span> <span class="n">node</span>
<span class="c1"># You might need to add node, ruby java and maven to the PATH, follow</span>
<span class="c1"># instructions from brew after installing.</span>
<span class="n">brew</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">node</span><span class="o">@</span><span class="mi">20</span>
<span class="n">brew</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">ruby</span>
<span class="n">brew</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">openjdk</span>
<span class="n">brew</span> <span class="n">install</span> <span class="n">maven</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="windows-11">
<h3>Windows 11<a class="headerlink" href="#windows-11" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>To be defined</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="casting-your-vote">
<h2>Casting your vote<a class="headerlink" href="#casting-your-vote" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>Once you have performed the verification you can cast your vote by responding
to the vote thread on <a class="reference external" href="mailto:dev&#37;&#52;&#48;arrow&#46;apache&#46;org">dev<span>&#64;</span>arrow<span>&#46;</span>apache<span>&#46;</span>org</a> and supply your result.</p>
<p>If the verification was successful you can send your +1 vote. We usually send
along with the vote the command that was executed and the local versions used.
As an example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="n">I</span><span class="s1">&#39;ve verified successfully the sources and binaries with:</span>
<span class="n">TEST_DEFAULT</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span> <span class="n">TEST_SOURCE</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="n">dev</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">release</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">verify</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">release</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">candidate</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sh</span> <span class="mf">15.0.0</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
<span class="k">with</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Python</span> <span class="mf">3.10.12</span>
<span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">gcc</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Ubuntu</span> <span class="mf">11.4.0</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="n">ubuntu1</span><span class="o">~</span><span class="mf">22.04</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="mf">11.4.0</span>
<span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">NVIDIA</span> <span class="n">CUDA</span> <span class="n">Build</span> <span class="n">cuda_11</span><span class="mf">.5</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">r11</span><span class="mf">.5</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">compiler</span><span class="mf">.30672275_0</span>
<span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">openjdk</span> <span class="n">version</span> <span class="s2">&quot;17.0.9&quot;</span> <span class="mi">2023</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">17</span>
<span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">ruby</span> <span class="mf">3.0.2</span><span class="n">p107</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2021</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">07</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">07</span> <span class="n">revision</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="n">db68f0233</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">x86_64</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">linux</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">gnu</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">dotnet</span> <span class="mf">8.0.204</span>
<span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">Ubuntu</span> <span class="mf">22.04</span> <span class="n">LTS</span>
</pre></div>
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<p>If there were some issues during verification please report them on the
mail thread to diagnose the issue.</p>
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