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+VOLTHA Components: voltha-protos
+================================
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+- google-api library version
+
+Validate
+--------
+
+- make lint
+- make test
+
+Versioning
+----------
+
+- Based on VERSION file contents in root directory of the repository.
+
+Release
+-------
+
+- Bump VERSION file to a non-dev semantic version.
+- See Validate above
+- Commit and approve to trigger a build