From 3a0e81d73ea571afffc9eceecc8aa5ae5673ce15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 15:12:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] docs: point RELEASE.md at centralized workspace release
 procedure

The maintainer-facing release procedure is now centralized in
workspace/workflows/release-process.md. Replace this repo's duplicated copy
with a pointer to it (keeping only repo-specific notes). De-stales the old
copy, which said "commit directly to main (no PR)", omitted the CHANGELOG
finalization step, and never mentioned the publish_to_central deploy gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QEgh6vtcPWAgQ6scK8pJk7
---
 docs/RELEASE.md | 35 ++++-------------------------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/RELEASE.md b/docs/RELEASE.md
index 3e80fc4..8f739a7 100644
--- a/docs/RELEASE.md
+++ b/docs/RELEASE.md
@@ -1,34 +1,7 @@
 # Release Process
 
-The following prompt template captures the release procedure. Paste it into a new Claude Code session, fill in the three placeholders, and send it to perform a release.
+The maintainer-facing release procedure is **centralized in the workspace repo**:
+[`../workspace/workflows/release-process.md`](../workspace/workflows/release-process.md).
 
-```
-Release `{PROJECT}` to Maven Central.
-
-**Step 1 — Prepare the release (do immediately):**
-1. Read the current version from `pom.xml` on `main` — it will be `{VERSION}-SNAPSHOT`
-2. Strip `-SNAPSHOT` from `pom.xml` (→ `{VERSION}`)
-3. In `README.md`, update **both**:
-   - The release dependency example to `{VERSION}`
-   - The snapshot dependency example to `{VERSION}-SNAPSHOT` (it should already match, but verify)
-4. Commit both files directly to `main` (no pull request)
-
-**Step 2 — Wait for manual confirmation:**
-I will create the `v{VERSION}` tag and GitHub release manually — wait for me to confirm
-the release is published on Maven Central before proceeding.
-
-**Step 3 — Post-release snapshot bump (after my confirmation):**
-Bump **both** files on `main`:
-- `pom.xml` → `{NEXT_VERSION}-SNAPSHOT`
-- `README.md` snapshot dependency example → `{NEXT_VERSION}-SNAPSHOT`
-
-Commit both changes together directly to `main`.
-
-**Placeholders:**
-
-| Placeholder      | Value                                        |
-|------------------|----------------------------------------------|
-| `{PROJECT}`      | *(project name)*                             |
-| `{VERSION}`      | *(release version, e.g. `1.3.0`)*           |
-| `{NEXT_VERSION}` | *(next snapshot base, e.g. `1.3.1`)*        |
-```
+llamacpp-ai-index-maven-plugin is a single-module Maven project (one `pom.xml`, one `README.md`
+dependency snippet), so the canonical procedure applies as-is — there is no repo-specific supplement.