Hello Whiskers. I've just run through the first release for a project component since the graduation (and automatic release publishing using Travis was forbidden...). Thanks for Dave Grove for doing a first pass at updating the instructions for the new manual post-incubation release process.
I came across a few doc issues I wanted to raise for feedback... https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-release/blob/master/docs/prepare_release.md - Step 4: CHANGELOG - Is a changelog in a project mandatory or just a nice to have? - Step 5: JIRA issues. Is a JIRA issue necessary? I can't find reference to this in the ASF docs. I did previously open one before a "VOTE" and was told it wasn't correct (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-232?filter=-2). I've also opened an issue to create a "single release" script to cut out the need to run dozens of individual steps manually. https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-release/issues/293 -- Regards, James Thomas
