DeepSpeech

Create release branch in https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech-examples
- Uplift new examples and modifications in latest stable branch into master
- Make any modifications necessary for compatibility with new DS version
- Branch from master into new release branch (e.g. r0.8 for DS v0.8.x, or r1.0 for DS v1.0.x)
Create release branch in https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
- Branch from master into new release branch (e.g. r0.8 for DS v0.8.x, or r1.0 for DS v1.0.x)
- Push new branch with no extra commits to GitHub
- Create a local branch based on the branch created above
- Change .taskcluster.yml and taskcluster/github-events.cyml to reference the new branch instead of master
- Change EXAMPLES_CHECKOUT_TARGET in taskcluster/win-opt-base.tyml and examples-base.tyml to checkout the new release branch instead of master
```
$ cd DeepSpeech
$ git checkout master && git pull
$ git checkout -b r0.8
$ git push origin r0.8
$ git checkout -b add-r0.8
$ for i in .taskcluster.yml taskcluster/github-events.cyml; do sed -i.bak -e 's/- master/- r0.8/' $i; done
$ git add .taskcluster.yml taskcluster/github-events.cyml
$ git commit -m "Switch CI to r0.8"
$ git push origin add-r0.8
```
- Make a PR into the release branch with above changes and make sure CI works
- Merge PR into new release branch
- Make a new alpha tag to test tag CI
Update release notes in draft release
Update hyperparameters in draft release
Update contributor list in draft release
Package and upload checkpoint, models, and audio examples
- Remember to include alphabet.txt in checkpoint package, as it's no longer needed for the models
- If packaging from a best_dev checkpoint, cp best_dev_checkpoint checkpoint to avoid problems when loading the checkpoint from code that doesn't handle the separate checkpoint/best_dev_checkpoint logic
Upload models somewhere else (e.g. personal fork release) and link prod model tests and examples tests to new URLs
Update all references to previous release in documentation
Bump VERSION file to new version, make PR.
Merge PR bumping VERSION file, pull changes locally, tag new version on the merge commit
Push the tag (git push origin {tag_name})
Publish the draft release pointing to the existing tag
Monitor task group created from the tag to make sure everything is built and published
Manually check package repositories after publish is complete
Check that new version is the default on https://deepspeech.readthedocs.io/
Make the new version the default on https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech-examples

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