release-process.md

Release process

The person who is responsible for cutting a release, pushes a tag to the GitHub repo to trigger the automation. A GitHub action then does the following things:

1. Runs a full build via make targets.
2. Runs the tests.
3. Creates a draft github release.

After the GitHub action runs successfully without failure, the person who is cutting the release:

1. Runs the release-notes command to gather the release notes from the pull requests that are part of the release.
2. Goes to the releases page and adds the release notes to the Draft release and publishes the release.