Hi,

> Here's my suggested release (non-) process.

As far as I can see we been doing all of that with the old process [1] with the 
exception that we usually make multiple RCs. Here's an example JIRA for the 
4.12 release. [2]

So why multiple RCs? The PMC usually puts off testing / checking things out 
until a vote is called, and few users that use the nightlys or provide feedback 
on them. So only having one RC is usually not  possible as issue are only found 
during the RC process. We've has a single RC once I think (the Squiggly 1.0 
release), but the installer always seems to give us trouble (most likely due to 
the large number of platforms and combinations that require manual testing).

Re the SDK, the CI is complicated in that the tests can be fragile and take 8 
hours to run. Sometime it's not obvious when the tests do fail (and that's 
often) if it's code changes, issues with the tests or issue with the build 
machine. The Mustella can also sometime difficult to debug and only a couple of 
people have experience with that.

Thanks,
Justin

1. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Release+Guide+for+the+SDK
2. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33950

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