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Several community members have written scripts that automate at least some of those tasks in the past.

Validate ticket has matching commit

To validate that every ticket has a corresponding commit, you could use this script.

If a ticket doesn't have a matching commit, you might take the following investigation steps:

1. Look through ticket and commits to see if this was just a revert.
2. Does the ticket reference a PR?
3. If this is about a specific file, take a look at the file's history
4. Ping the ticket assignee

If it turns out the ticket wasn't resolved in this release, adjust the fix version.

Creating a Release Candidate

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