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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 0aff7b7584 docs: add spdx tags to all .md files
I have no idea if this is going to cause rendering problems, and it is fairly
hard to check. So let's just merge this, and if it github markdown processor
doesn't like it, revert.
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Steps to a Successful Release Contributing default LGPL-2.1-or-later

Steps to a Successful Release

  1. Add all items to NEWS
  2. Update the contributors list in NEWS (meson compile -C build git-contrib)
  3. Update the time and place in NEWS
  4. Update hwb (meson compile -C build update-hwdb update-hwdb-autosuspend)
  5. [RC1] Update version and library numbers in meson.build
  6. Check dbus docs with meson compile -C build update-dbus-docs
  7. Tag the release: version=vXXX-rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"
  8. Do meson compile -C build
  9. Make sure that the version string and package string match: build/systemctl --version
  10. Upload the documentation: meson compile -C build doc-sync
  11. [FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones)
  12. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate.
  13. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically.
  14. Update IRC topic (/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released)
  15. [FINAL] Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: git push systemd-stable origin/master:master origin/master:refs/heads/${version}-stable, and change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches).