docs/release_process.md

🚀 Release Process

⏱️ Cadence

• Monthly milestone release
• Hotfix releases as needed

✅ Required for release

• Changelog summary in ../CHANGELOG.md
• Benchmark snapshot in ../benchmarks/results/README.md format
• Known limitations section in release notes
• Reproducible commands/scripts
• Link and normalization checks:
  • python scripts/check_links.py
  • python scripts/validate_normalization.py data/processed/normalization_seed_v0.1.tsv

🔖 Versioning

• Use semantic-style tags for major milestones (e.g., v0.1, v0.2)

🧾 Templates

• Release checklist: release_checklist.md
• Release notes template: ../.github/release_template.md