docs: clarify release communication checkpoints - #259
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Release automation can prepare evidence and message templates, but sending votes, results, and announcements represents the release manager in the Apache community. Make those boundaries explicit so the procedure stops before public communication and hands the reviewed text to the release manager's Apache email account.
Agent-oriented handoff language makes the release guide read like tool instructions rather than a shared operational runbook. Define actor-neutral review, send, and evidence requirements that tell both release managers and supporting tools when each public communication step is complete.
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Summary
[VOTE],[CANCEL][VOTE],[RESULT][VOTE], and[ANNOUNCE]Why
The release guide is shared by release managers and the tools that support them. Public communications need an explicit responsibility and completion boundary, but describing that boundary in terms of agents or automation makes the runbook less natural for human readers.
The revised wording is operational instead: populate each message from verified release state, review its recipients and release-specific values, send it from the release manager's Apache email account, and record the resulting thread URL. These are useful instructions and observable completion criteria regardless of how the draft and supporting evidence were prepared.
This is a rolling documentation improvement and does not change or invalidate the already tagged, published, staged, and verified 0.5.0 RC1 candidate.
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docs: mark release communications as human handoffsdocs: express release communication as checkpointsValidation
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