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Abhishek Lekshmanan, 02/15/2017 08:59 AM

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h3. HOWTO formally announce a release
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* Alfredo announces to QA Lead, Project Lead & Release manager once the final packages are cut
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* Release manager to create the release notes on the master branch 
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* Make corrections to components as much as possible in the release notes for easier tracking.
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* Generate a changelog (this is only for backport releases) which could be done via 
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<pre>
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git log tags/<prev.release>..tags/<current.release>
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</pre>
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And submit the pr to master; on docs/changelog/<release-version>.txt
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* Once docs.ceph.com updates with the above files, and the right urls are checked, do a blog post on ceph.com with the correct links, this can be copy-pasted from the html rendered release notes
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* Announce the email preferably with the plain text version of release notes, to, ceph-announce, ceph-users, ceph-maintainers, ceph-devel lists
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* Inform Patrick (@scuttlemonkey) about the release so that @ceph tweets the release