1ea8674316 [doc] update release-process.md and backports section of CONTRIBUTING (glozow)
Pull request description:
While doing various release process things for the first time, I noticed some of our docs are outdated and/or confusing.
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- Mention which directories contain the respective unsigned tarballs
- Clarify that bitcoin.conf might not need to be updated
- Specify where to put historical release notes if there is already
something in release-notes.md
- Clarify what exactly is the problem with running guix-codesign more
than once
- Correct number: 6 codesigned attestations are needed before uploading
binaries
- Remove scp command which is outdated
- Remove server path which is outdated
- Specify that translations update should happen before branch-off, not
before each release candidate
- Mention that you should notify lists when RCs are available
- Put "Archive the release notes" as a separate step, since creating the
github release has a dependency on it.
- Put bitcoincore.org website updates as a separate step, since
updating packaging repos may have a dependency on it.
- Update "bitcoin-dev mailing list" to "bitcoin-dev group"
- Document that maintainers should create PRs to collect backports
- Remove section about not uploading `*-debug` files, reader should
upload all build artifacts.
- Torrent is created automatically, so delete instructions.
- Mention that server also generates ots file automatically.
The developer mailing list was migrated to Google Groups in February 2024
as announced in https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/aewBuV6k-LI.
The archives maintained by the Linux Foundation stopped updating in December
2024. Thus, we point to the new archive maintained by gnusha.org.
The codebase refers to old discussions linked to the Linux Foundation archives.
Since all links are still active to this date, we keep them as they are.
See #29782.
The section `Committing Patches` contains an example commit subject line
that violates rule seven of the linked guide to writing commit
logs (Chris Beams famous blog post).
We should practice what we preach, especially in examples :)
Use the imperative mood in example commit message subject line.
For a couple of years, Tor documentation has made
the term hidden service obsolete, in favor of onion
service.
This PR updates all the references in the code base.
