Debian Release Process Documentation
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"One place to understand how Debian stable releases happen."

This project collects procedures, policies, rationale, timelines and runbooks that describe
how a Debian stable release is planned, executed and maintained. It aims to make implicit
knowledge explicit and lower the barrier for new contributors.

Focus Areas (initial scope):

* Lifecycle phases (planning → freezes → release → post‑release)
* Team roles & responsibilities
* Policies & criteria (RC bugs, transitions, architecture qualification)
* Tooling (britney, dak, buildd, autopkgtest, debian-cd, d-i pipeline)
* Runbooks / checklists for recurring tasks
* Historical timelines & lessons learned
* Glossary of common terms

Project Status: early skeleton. Many pages are placeholders.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Core Topics

   lifecycle/overview
   roles/overview
   tooling/overview
   policies/overview
   runbooks/overview
   references/history
   glossary

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: Meta

   quickstart
   contributing
   license