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Release guidance still mixed retired GitLab jobs, standalone tags and local image pushes with the current source-release and umbrella workflows. Consolidate the entry points and correct the boundaries between stack source releases, producer availability, runtime QA, customer publication and docs activation.

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Keep source versioning in docs/dev/github-release-process.md and product assembly/promotion in docs/dev/umbrella-releases.md. Replace obsolete procedures with routing links, update component guidance and clarify chart appVersion behavior. Preserve frozen editions and release history. Normalize touched prose to repository style.

For the Reviewer

Start with RELEASE.md and the two owning guides. This changes documentation and agent guidance only.

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Markdown lint, relative-link checks, tools/ci/check-docs, tools/ci/preview-docs --check, external-link validation and diff checks passed. Fern skipped its authenticated redirects check because no login was available. Runtime QA is not required for these documentation changes.

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Relates to #2492

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  • I am familiar with the Contributing Guidelines.
  • I have signed off my commits for DCO compliance.
  • Existing documentation checks cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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  • Documentation
    • Updated release guidance for component versioning, maintenance branches, source tags, artifact verification, and separate image, chart, stack, and umbrella release workflows.
    • Clarified that umbrella releases require qualification of the selected stack combination, while component source releases and inventories can be published independently.
    • Explained that chart versions and application image versions are separate, and that successful product bundle publication does not activate maintained documentation.
    • Updated build and deployment instructions to reference current release workflows; local builds do not publish releases.
    • Removed outdated manual registry-push instructions and descriptions of retired GitLab release lanes.

Signed-off-by: Stephanie Baum <sbaum@nvidia.com>
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  • CONTRIBUTING.md
  • docs/dev/release-process.md
  • src/compute-plane-services/image-credential-helper/README.md
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  • docs/dev/release-process.md
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The pull request updates release and contribution guidance across the repository. It replaces retired GitLab release and image-publishing instructions with guidance for component source releases, publication handoffs, umbrella qualification, and documentation editions.

Changes: Release guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Repository release model
AGENTS.md, BAZEL.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, RELEASE.md, docs/AGENTS.md, docs/dev/release-process.md, deploy/helm/icms/README.md, tools/changelog-site/README.md
Repository guidance describes component and stack release paths and directs readers to current workflows. It distinguishes chart versioning from the application image version and identifies the changelog-site GitLab integration as historical.
Component release handoffs
src/**/AGENTS.md, src/**/README.md, src/**/CONTRIBUTING.md, src/**/RELEASING.md, src/**/docs/deploy.md
Component instructions replace manual image publication and standalone release steps with monorepo release guidance. Formatting edits retain documented component behavior.
Umbrella and docs qualification
docs/dev/github-release-process.md, docs/dev/umbrella-releases.md, docs/dev/docs-editions.md
The guides separate stable source releases and inventories from umbrella qualification and publication. They describe qualification evidence, candidate handling, and legacy versus maintained documentation editions.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

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Suggested labels: documentation

Suggested reviewers: kristinapathak, charles-hsiao

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  • 🪄 Fix comments: Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR
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Review comments at @CONTRIBUTING.md:
- Around line 68-71: Update Step 6’s PR-target guidance to specify main for new
development and maintenance fixes that remain on the required minor, and the
owning maintenance train when required by the release workflow.

Review comments at @docs/dev/release-process.md:
- Around line 3-4: Update the Release process link in the pre-cutover pipeline
guidance to point to a published docs target or valid repository URL that
resolves correctly in the docs preview; verify it passes the docs link check.

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@src/compute-plane-services/image-credential-helper/README.md:
- Line 249: Update the GitHub Issues link in the README to point to the
NVIDIA/nvcf monorepo issue tracker instead of
NVIDIA/nvcf-image-credential-helper.

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  • AGENTS.md
  • BAZEL.md
  • CONTRIBUTING.md
  • RELEASE.md
  • deploy/helm/icms/README.md
  • docs/AGENTS.md
  • docs/dev/docs-editions.md
  • docs/dev/github-release-process.md
  • docs/dev/release-process.md
  • docs/dev/umbrella-releases.md
  • src/clis/nvcf-cli/README.md
  • src/compute-plane-services/byoo-otel-collector/AGENTS.md
  • src/compute-plane-services/ess-agent/AGENTS.md
  • src/compute-plane-services/ess-agent/README.md
  • src/compute-plane-services/ess-agent/nv_releases/docs/deploy.md
  • src/compute-plane-services/image-credential-helper/AGENTS.md
  • src/compute-plane-services/image-credential-helper/CONTRIBUTING.md
  • src/compute-plane-services/image-credential-helper/README.md
  • src/compute-plane-services/image-credential-helper/RELEASING.md
  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/AGENTS.md
  • src/compute-plane-services/nvca/README.md
  • src/control-plane-services/function-autoscaler/AGENTS.md
  • src/control-plane-services/function-autoscaler/README.md
  • src/control-plane-services/nats-auth-callout/AGENTS.md
  • src/control-plane-services/nats-auth-callout/README.md
  • src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/AGENTS.md
  • src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/README.md
  • src/invocation-plane-services/http-invocation/AGENTS.md
  • src/invocation-plane-services/http-invocation/README.md
  • src/invocation-plane-services/llm-api-gateway/AGENTS.md
  • src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/AGENTS.md
  • src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/README.md
  • src/invocation-plane-services/vanity-gateway/README.md
  • tools/changelog-site/README.md

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