semantic-conventions/RELEASING.md

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# Releasing
## Preparing a new release
- Close the [release milestone](https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/milestones)
if there is one.
- Run [opentelemetry.io workflow](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io/actions/workflows/build-dev.yml)
against `semantic-conventions` submodule as a smoke-test for docs. Fix broken links, if any.
- Run the [prepare release workflow](https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/actions/workflows/prepare-release.yml).
- Review and merge the pull request that it creates.
- Note: the PR will need to be closed and the workflow re-run if any non-chore PRs are merged to `main` while the PR is open.
## Making the release
- Create a [new release](https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/releases/new):
- Set title and tag to `v{version}`
- Set target to the commit of the merged release PR
- Copy changelog to the release notes
- First click the generate release notes button and keep only the bottom sections under "New Contributors"
- Verify that the release looks like expected
- Publish release
New release is then auto-discovered by [opentelemetry.io](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io) pipelines which (via bot-generated PR)
eventually results in new version of schema file being published.