[GitHub] [beam] lostluck commented on a diff in pull request #28619: Move release guide from website to new contributor-docs/ home

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lostluck commented on code in PR #28619:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/28619#discussion_r1334568442


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contributor-docs/release-guide.md:
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 # Apache Beam Release Guide
 
-{{< toc >}}
-
 ## Introduction
 
-The Apache Beam project periodically declares and publishes releases.
-A release is one or more packages of the project artifact(s) that are approved for general public distribution and use.
-They may come with various degrees of caveat regarding their perceived quality and potential for change, such as “alpha”, “beta”, “incubating”, “stable”, etc.
+The Apache Beam project periodically declares and publishes releases.  A
+release is one or more packages of the project artifact(s) that are approved
+for general public distribution and use.  They may come with various degrees of
+caveat regarding their perceived quality and potential for change, such as
+“alpha”, “beta”, “incubating”, “stable”, etc.
 
-The Beam community treats releases with great importance.
-They are a public face of the project and most users interact with the project only through the releases. Releases are signed off by the entire Beam community in a public vote.
+The Beam community treats releases with great importance.  They are a public
+face of the project and most users interact with the project only through the
+releases. Releases are signed off by the entire Beam community in a public
+vote.
 
-Each release is executed by a *Release Manager*, who is selected among the Beam committers.
-This document describes the process that the Release Manager follows to perform a release.
-Any changes to this process should be discussed and adopted on the [dev@ mailing list](/get-started/support/).
+Each release is executed by a *Release Manager*, who is selected among the Beam
+committers.  This document describes the process that the Release Manager
+follows to perform a release.  Any changes to this process should be discussed
+and adopted on the [dev@ mailing list](/get-started/support/).
 
-Please remember that publishing software has legal consequences.
-This guide complements the foundation-wide [Product Release Policy](https://www.apache.org/dev/release.html) and [Release Distribution Policy](https://www.apache.org/dev/release-distribution).
+Please remember that publishing software has legal consequences.  This guide
+complements the foundation-wide [Product Release
+Policy](https://www.apache.org/dev/release.html) and [Release Distribution
+Policy](https://www.apache.org/dev/release-distribution).
 
 ### Overview
 
-<img src="/images/release-guide-1.png" alt="Release step flow chart" width="100%">
+<img src="images/release-guide-1.png" alt="Release step flow chart" width="100%">
 
 The release process consists of several steps:
 
 1. Decide to release
-1. Prepare for the release
-1. Build a release candidate
-    1. Create a release branch
-    1. Verify release branch
-    1. Tag a release candidate
-    1. Build release artifacts
-1. Vote on the release candidate
-    * During vote process, run validation tests
-1. If necessary, fix any issues and go back to step 3.
-1. Finalize the release
-1. Promote the release
-
-**********
+2. Prepare for the release
+3. Build a release candidate
+   1. Create a release branch
+   2. Verify release branch
+   3. Tag a release candidate
+   4. Build release artifacts
+4. Vote on the release candidate
+   * During vote process, run validation tests
+5. If necessary, fix any issues and go back to step 3.
+6. Finalize the release
+7. Promote the release

Review Comment:
   I'm with Kenn on this one. Minimizing diffs in this context is the wrong priority.



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