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Expand Up @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ the post-release actions required to add new release branches to the CI.
High-level release process for a major/minor release. For patch releases, only
release the relevant versions.

**TIP**: To speed up the release process, run the `hack/verify-release.sh`
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The more you edit this, the more I dislike it. The point of verify-release.sh is to make sure something wasn't missed. Its not supposed to be "part" of release process to bump the CVEs etc. All those should've happened as part of normal development process, and the script is just safeguard for verification of that work.

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This paragraph is giving the same idea as here:
https://github.com/metal3-io/baremetal-operator/blob/230a562f7e3b09299f60fc4c9c684b0210707149/docs/releasing.md?plain=1#L18

script on all release branches of all repos (and on the main branch for
pre-releases). The script shows if any modules need updating or if there are
CVE fixes required. Open PRs to fix these issues in parallel to make the
release process faster.

**NOTE**: [Ironic-image](https://github.com/metal3-io/ironic-image) (via
upstream Ironic) and
[IrSO](https://github.com/metal3-io/ironic-standalone-operator) (linked to
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