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- Are the NOTICE and LICENSE files included in the root directory?
- Is everything in the source repository included in the distro?
- Files typically in the root directory
- project.xml
- maven.xml
- project.properties
- (maybe) build.xml
- Checkstyle files (xml config, checkstyle headers file)
- Are the contents of the source directory present
- Are the contents of the xdocs directory present
- Are configuration files / directories present?
- Are there any additional files included that are not in the source repository?
- e.g. SVN files, log files, temporary distribution directories
- Files typically in the root directory
- Can the project be built (e.g. run "maven dist" or relevant ant command) from the source distribution (note the commons-build directory will need to be available)?
- do the tests run?
- is the jar correctly generated
- do the distribution files generated (i.e. binary/source zip/tar.gz files) match the ones for the release (md5's and bytecounts may be different and diffs may fail if checking is done on a different platform than that used to cut the release)?