[FLINK-9425] Make release scripts compliant with ASF release policy

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.0, 1.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: Build System
• Assignee: Till Rohrmann
• Reporter: Till Rohrmann
• Created: 23/May/18 13:33
• Updated: 24/May/18 14:05
• Resolved: 24/May/18 14:04

Description

In order to be compliant with the new ASF release policy [1], we should update our release scripts to not create any MD5 checksum files anymore. Moreover, we should store the sha checksums in a sha512 suffixed file.

[1] https://www.apache.org/dev/release-distribution.html

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6061