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+VOLTHA Components: voltha-openolt-adapter
+=========================================
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+- update go.mod
+
+  - grep '/opencord/' go.mod
+  - voltha-protos
+  - voltha-lib-go
+
+
+Validate
+--------
+
+Versioning
+----------
+
+- Based on VERSION file contents in root directory of the repository.
+
+Release
+-------
+
+- Update project copyright notice ending date.
+- Bump /opencord/ component version(s) in go.mod
+- make distclean
+- make lint
+  - if go.mod and go.sum are the only deltas
+  - git commit -F {commit_message_file}
+- make mod-update
+  - git add vendor/ modified files.
+  - avoid running 'make lint' prior to git commit --amend
+  - vendor/ files modified, git status reports delta w/o content (file touch?)
+- Review and commit changes.
+- make lint lint-mod
+- If docker is configured
+  - make build test
+- When ready to release a new component version of voltha-openolt-adapter
+
+  - Bump VERSION file to a non-dev semantic version.
+
+- Commit changes and create a pull request.
+- Once approved a jenkins job will launch.
+