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+Release overview (WIP)
+======================
+
+For a VOLTHA release several actions and patches are applied to each repository.
+Release also happens in a hierarchial manner due to dependencies.
+
+- Version string differs between branch=master and branch=voltha-2.12.
+- For ex repo:voltha-protos currently has:
+
+  - master=5.5.0
+  - voltha-2.12=5.4.11
+
+- For release create an initial baseline build to verify no pre-existing corruption or test failures are present.
+
+  - Baseline builds contain bulk cosmetic changes which may include:
+
+    - Copyright notice ending date change.
+    - Cosmetic comemnt changes in source.
+    - Syntax formatting (gofmt -s -e -w)
+
+  - Baseline builds may also remove suffixes like -dev from the VERSION file.
+
+- Now tag-branch or branch-tag the repo (depending on repository) for release.
+  A few things will need to happen:
+
+  - A few distinct sets of patches for each branch are created:
+
+    - Update VERSION string so master and voltha-2.12 patches cannot collide.
+
+      - branch=voltha-2.12 : VERSION = {max}.{min}+1.0
+      - branch=master      : VERSION = {max+1}.{min}.0
+
+    - Update release branch .gitreview file:
+
+      - defaultbranch=voltha-2.12
+      - This will rebase/merge against the release branch rather than master.
+
+  - Update go.mod version strings to be appropriate for branch={voltha-2.12, master}
+
+NOTE
+
+::
+
+   One item that may be confusing.  Baseline builds for release are independent
+   of tagging & branching so may be initiated in parallel.  Generally release
+   tasks for a repository are performed in hierarchial order, release
+   repositories and obtain the final version string.  Next continue onto
+   releasing repositories that depend on ones released earlier.
+
+   For ex, the release sequence for repo:voltha-go would be
+   1) Release repo:votlha-protos
+   2) Release repo:votlha-lib-go  # Depends on voltha-protos
+   3) Release repo:votlha-go      # Depends on both.
+
+Todo
+----
+
+- Add document references to existing release pages.
+- Link to repo dependencies in howto/release/repositories