[GRASS-git] [OSGeo/grass] 9caec5: contributing: Make release procedure cleaner and m...

[Vaclav Petras]

  Branch: refs/heads/main
  Home:   https://github.com/OSGeo/grass
  Commit: 9caec5ce1cb5bb5d6fac312125af41e605db8044
      https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/commit/9caec5ce1cb5bb5d6fac312125af41e605db8044
  Author: Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
  Date:   2022-04-29 (Fri, 29 Apr 2022)

  Changed paths:
    M doc/howto_release.md

  Log Message:
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  contributing: Make release procedure cleaner and more detailed (#2346)

- List all assumptions.
- Prep repo before a first update step.
- Create tag locally. GitHub Actions workflow creates the release.
- Unlike the 8.2.0RC1 and the past releases done through GitHub which created lightweight tags, create an annotated tag for more metatada (old tags converted from Subversion are annotated).
- Cover all cases for the version file updates.
- Remove the local copy reset after creation of a tag. There are no changes online which should be updated locally (unlike in the previous approach).
- Use consistent heading levels.
- Add step to publish the release.
- Mention the open issues or PRs in assumptions and milestone closing.
- Format git log and git show in text as code with backticks, although they really refer to the tools because they valid code too.