From f6b703f1b657a51492b74bd28af89ddd91d1ad14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shahar Epstein <60007259+shahar1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:33:57 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] [v3-3-test] Gate provider release on artifact completeness
 check before vote (#69141)

A recent ad-hoc provider release reached the vote thread missing the
all-providers -source.tar.gz tarball, drawing a -1. The completeness
check that catches this already exists as a PMC-reviewer step but the
release-manager flow never ran it, so the gap only surfaced after the
vote email went out. Run the same check right after the SVN commit so a
missing artifact fails for the release manager first.
(cherry picked from commit b176ec91dc543338079d92b6697eb59a1520e69b)

Co-authored-by: Shahar Epstein <60007259+shahar1@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 dev/README_RELEASE_PROVIDERS.md | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dev/README_RELEASE_PROVIDERS.md b/dev/README_RELEASE_PROVIDERS.md
index d958fc68a0857..7a95c062dd1e9 100644
--- a/dev/README_RELEASE_PROVIDERS.md
+++ b/dev/README_RELEASE_PROVIDERS.md
@@ -592,6 +592,20 @@ svn commit -m "Add artifacts for Airflow Providers ${RELEASE_DATE}"
 cd "$AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT"
 ```
 
+* Before sending the vote email, gate on the same completeness check the PMC verifiers run, so a
+  missing artifact (e.g. the `-source.tar.gz` tarball) fails here instead of in the vote thread.
+  Put the package list from the upcoming vote email into `dev/packages.txt`, then run:
+
+```shell script
+cd "$AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT"
+breeze release-management check-release-files providers --release-date "${RELEASE_DATE}" \
+  --packages-file ./dev/packages.txt \
+  --path-to-airflow-svn "$(cd ../asf-dist/dev/airflow && pwd -P)"
+```
+
+  It exits non-zero and lists every missing file (including `.asc`/`.sha512` variants) if anything is
+  absent. Only proceed to the vote once it prints `All expected files are present!`.
+
 Verify that the files are available in the ${RELEASE_DATE} folder under
 [providers](https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airflow/providers/)