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 - Break up text with headers, lists, and code blocks
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+##
 ```{toctree}
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 contributing/development-environment.md
 contributing/internals.md
+contributing/maintainers.md
 ```
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+# Maintainers Guide
+
+## Releasing
+
+To release a new version of Jumpstarter, you need to follow these steps:
+
+### set the version you want to release
+```console
+export VERSION_PYTHON=0.7.0
+export VERSION_GO=0.7.0
+export RELEASE_BRANCH=release-0.7
+```
+
+If you wish to create a pre-release you can add the desired suffixes, but please note that go
+and python use sighlty different naming conventions.
+
+For example:
+```console
+export VERSION_PYTHON=0.7.0rc1
+export PYTHON_NEXT=0.8.0-dev
+export VERSION_GO=0.7.0-rc1
+export RELEASE_BRANCH=release-0.7
+# the next version of python used as anchor for main branch versions with pip index
+export PYTHON_NEXT=0.8.0-dev
+```
+
+### checkout and release the jumpstarter-e2e repository
+
+```console
+git clone https://github.com/jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter-e2e.git
+cd jumpstarter-e2e
+```
+
+For this one we don't tag versions, we just create a new branch.
+
+```console
+git fetch --all --tags # in case you already have the repository cloned
+git checkout remotes/origin/main -B "${RELEASE_BRANCH}"
+git push origin "${RELEASE_BRANCH}"
+git checkout remotes/origin/main -B main
+git tag -a "v${PYTHON_NEXT}" -m "Development base v${PYTHON_NEXT}"
+git push origin "v${PYTHON_NEXT}"
+```
+
+### checkout and release the controller repository first
+
+```console
+git clone https://github.com/jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter-controller.git
+cd jumpstarter-controller
+```
+
+If it's the first time you are creating a tag for a minor version, you need to create a new branch first.
+```console
+git fetch --all --tags # in case you already have the repository cloned
+git checkout remotes/origin/main -B "${RELEASE_BRANCH}"
+git push origin "${RELEASE_BRANCH}"
+```
+
+Now just tag the branch
+```console
+git fetch --all --tags # in case you already have the repository cloned
+git checkout remotes/origin/${RELEASE_BRANCH} -B ${RELEASE_BRANCH}
+git tag -a "v${VERSION_GO}" -m "Release v${VERSION_GO}"
+git push origin "v${VERSION_GO}"
+```
+### checkout and release the jumpstarter python packages repository
+
+```console
+git clone https://github.com/jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter.git
+cd jumpstarter
+```
+
+If it's the first time you are creating a tag for a minor version, you need to create a new branch first.
+```console
+git fetch --all --tags
+git checkout remotes/origin/main -B "${RELEASE_BRANCH}"
+git push origin "${RELEASE_BRANCH}"
+```
+
+Now just tag the branch
+```console
+git fetch --all --tags
+git checkout remotes/origin/${RELEASE_BRANCH} -B ${RELEASE_BRANCH}
+git tag -a "v${VERSION_PYTHON}" -m "Release v${VERSION_PYTHON}"
+git push origin v${VERSION_PYTHON}
+```
+
+# Create release notes
+
+* https://github.com/jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter/releases/new
+* https://github.com/jumpstarter-dev/jumpstarter-controller/releases/new
+
+# Triggering a new package index build here
+
+Using the Run Workflow from main:
+https://github.com/jumpstarter-dev/packages/actions/workflows/publish-index.yml
+
+# Publish to pypi
+```console
+export UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN=pypi-.....
+git checkout v0.7.0
+rm -rf dist
+make build
+uv publish