short tl;dr; of the release
- Robustness and quality
- Ensure that all tests are passing, this includes:
- unit
- interop
- sharness
- Run tests of the following projects with the new release:
- Ensure that all tests are passing, this includes:
- Documentation
- Ensure that README.md is up to date
- Ensure that all the examples run
- Communication
- Create the release issue
- Announcements (both pre-release and post-release)
- IRC
- Blog post