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A Release is where the all the Maven artifacts and Docker images are released on the current branch and and the snapshot version of the repositories is stepped.
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The process of performing a release is best illustrated by example. Let's assume we are on the Jakarta release. We have checked out the Policy Framework repositories into the onap/policy subdirectory of the current directory.
Branching the Repositories
Branching a Release is where the all the Maven artifacts and Docker images are released on the current branch and and the snapshot version of the repositories is stepped.
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