Release Process

1. Preparing for a release - How to prepare the project for a release
2. Prerequisites - steps that a new release manager must do (but which only need to be done once)
3. Set environment variables - many example snippets here use environment variables to avoid repetition - this page describes what they are
4. Create a release branch and set the version
5. Make the release artifacts
6. Verify the release artifacts
7. Publish the release artifacts to the staging area
8. Vote on the dev@brooklyn list
9. If the vote fails - fix the release branch and resume from step 4
10. Publish the release artifacts to the public location
11. Announce the release