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These files are required as part of the incubation checklist, created them with the help of Claude agents and kept it high-level.

mohan-shash and others added 4 commits August 6, 2026 14:40
Adds RELEASES.md documenting the bootc release process including
versioning, automated workflows, release assets, and stability
guarantees.

This is an initial draft with some policy questions marked for
maintainer input (support horizon, backporting, release branches).

Addresses: bootc-dev/community#36
Signed-off-by: mohan-shash <mokumar@redhat.com>
…ecurity releases

Breaking Changes:
- Deprecation warnings: at least 2 releases in advance

Security Releases:
- Critical vulnerabilities fast-tracked (immediate release, not waiting for weekly cycle)

These defaults to be confirmed with maintainers at Friday meeting.

Signed-off-by: mohan-shash <mokumar@redhat.com>
Assisted-by: AI

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: mohan-shash <mokumar@redhat.com>
Adopts containerd-style approach: roadmap items tracked through GitHub
issues and milestones rather than a static document with owners and
timelines. Keeps strategic direction as brief narrative paragraphs.

Removes Owner/Status/Target fields per CNCF project conventions.

Related: bootc-dev/community#35
Signed-off-by: mohan-shash <mokumar@redhat.com>
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mohan-shash force-pushed the add-releases-documentation branch from 12e78ff to b57671a Compare August 6, 2026 18:41

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Great start! We'll fill in those open questions and TODOs over time :)

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