[openwhisk-release] branch master updated: update to reflect replacement of release mirrors with a CDN (#400)

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this push:
     new ba8a21f  update to reflect replacement of release mirrors with a CDN (#400)
ba8a21f is described below

commit ba8a21f464baef583ac40912b1e418ae41941d8e
Author: David Grove <dg...@users.noreply.github.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Dec 13 19:22:14 2021 -0500

    update to reflect replacement of release mirrors with a CDN (#400)
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 docs/release_instructions.md | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/release_instructions.md b/docs/release_instructions.md
index febac37..5b089ee 100644
--- a/docs/release_instructions.md
+++ b/docs/release_instructions.md
@@ -448,7 +448,9 @@ refer to the newly released versions.
 
 ### Announcing the Release
 
-For all normal releases you should wait at least 24 hours before announcing the release to allow time for Apache Dist mirrors to be updated with the newly released artifacts.  You must also wait until the PR to update the website has been merged and the change appears on the website (successful Jenkins job to rebuild website).
+You must wait until the PR to update the website has been merged and the change appears on the website (successful Jenkins job to rebuild website) before announcing the release.
+
+Apache releases are now distributed via a content delivery network (CDN).  The expected lag from committing to svn to an artifact appearing on the CDN is about 15 minutes. So, in practice, once the updated Downloads page appears on the OpenWhisk website you can announce the release.
 
 When announcing a release, you must use the URL of the OpenWhisk Downloads page (or some other URL that supports mirroring).  Do not include a direct link to the dist.apache.org svn server.