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Which issue does this PR close?

Rationale for this change

Upon releasing 53.0.0 and 53.1.0 I found some steps not clear or misleading, I tried to clarify steps based on most recent experience

What changes are included in this PR?

Are these changes tested?

Are there any user-facing changes?

@comphead comphead requested a review from alamb April 17, 2026 16:04
@github-actions github-actions bot added the development-process Related to development process of DataFusion label Apr 17, 2026
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### 11. Forward-port changelog to `main`

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this is not needed as should be covered by sync steps above

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#### If the Vote Passes: Announce the Result

Call the vote on the Arrow dev list by replying to the RC voting thread. The
Call the vote on the Apache Datafusion dev list by replying to the RC voting thread. The
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candidate versions found which didn't match: 53.0.0, 52.5.0, 52.4.0, ...
location searched: crates.io index
required by package `datafusion-ffi v53.1.0 (/private/tmp/apache-datafusion-53.1.0/datafusion/ffi)`
MacBook-Pro-135:apache-datafusion-53.1.0 ovoievodin$ (cd datafusion/proto && cargo publish)
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This line isn't needed.

@comphead comphead added this pull request to the merge queue Apr 20, 2026
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Rich-T-kid pushed a commit to Rich-T-kid/datafusion that referenced this pull request Apr 21, 2026
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## Rationale for this change

Upon releasing 53.0.0 and 53.1.0 I found some steps not clear or
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