Releases
Release materials are separate from evergreen product documentation. This page describes the boundary at a high level so contributors know where a change belongs.
Source of truth
Section titled “Source of truth”- README and
docs/**describe current behavior, operations, and support. SECURITY.mdandCONTRIBUTING.mddefine reporting and contribution policy.- Release notes describe version-specific changes and belong in the project release materials.
- Site content mirrors the repository pages through the routes in the site route inventory.
Do not add availability claims, version-history tables, package publication claims, external service identity, or release-specific transition instructions to evergreen pages.
Maintainer checks
Section titled “Maintainer checks”Maintainers review source, tests, docs, package metadata, and distribution checks together. They run the required platform checks on a clean tree, verify the 11-tool surface and plugin/Netcap contracts, prepare release-specific notes separately, and use authenticated publication systems under their own authority.
Contributors do not add credentials, upload source or target data, change publication configuration, or publish packages/sites as part of an ordinary code or documentation change.
See Contributing, Compatibility, and Security support.