Release Management Skill

A release is not just a deploy. It's a versioned, documented, communicable event that users and stakeholders can reason about.

When to Activate

• Cutting a new release (/release)
• Deciding what version number to assign
• Generating a CHANGELOG from commit history
• Setting up automated release notes
• Planning a hotfix release
• Documenting rollback procedures
• Determining whether a commit warrants a MAJOR, MINOR, or PATCH bump based on conventional commit types
• Automating the release PR workflow with release-please in GitHub Actions
• Creating a hotfix branch from a release tag when a production incident requires a targeted patch

Semantic Versioning (SemVer)