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For patch releases (x.y.z), run the release wizard script from the release branch, e.g. branch_8_8; for minor release, run the release wizard from the major version stable branch, e.g. branch_8x; for major release, run the release wizard from mastermain.

Plan for the release to take at least 5 days, but probably closer to 8-10 days if the vote period overlaps with a weekend or holiday (or an RC fails, resetting the timeline on the vote):

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Once you reach the publish artifacts step, you'll need to wait 24hrs before moving on to the next step, so plan accordingly.

Lastly, please Please do the next RM a favor and complete all of the Post release steps in a timely manner. If you skip any of these steps, then the next RM may encounter weird failures in the release wizard that they may not understand the problem, esp. for new RMs. Report any issues you find in JIRA when doing the release so we can improve the release process.

Lastly, please add any additional advice you have for the next RM to this section.