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This document serves as the touchstone for the development process that is used by the Maven project to manage branches and the trunk during the development leading up to releases.
In particular the following will be addressed:

• New development
  • Where new development starts
• Releases
  • Creating a release branch
  • Working on a release branch
  • Creating release candidates (RCs) from a release branch
  • Soak period for RCs
  • How to integrate bug fixes into an RC
  • Generating an official release
  • How to integrate bug fixes into a release branch
• Experimental, complex bug fix, and high-risk change branches

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