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+## RELEASE GUIDELINES
+
+- There is a scheduled release on the 15th of every month on the following repositories:
+ - [Litmus](https://github.com/litmuschaos/litmus)
+ - [Chaos-Operator](https://github.com/litmuschaos/chaos-operator)
+ - [Chaos-Exporter](https://github.com/litmuschaos/chaos-exporter)
+
+- Repositories use release version according to the [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/)
+
+- Docker images with release tags are pushed upon creation of a github release. The CI configuration to enable this can be found on the following repositories:
+ - [Litmus](https://github.com/litmuschaos/litmus/blob/master/.travis.yml)
+ - [Chaos-Operator](https://github.com/litmuschaos/chaos-operator/blob/master/.circleci/config.yml)
+ - [Chaos-Exporter](https://github.com/litmuschaos/chaos-exporter/blob/master/.travis.yml)
+
+- Following are the docker images:
+ - [litmuschaos/ansible-runner](https://cloud.docker.com/u/litmuschaos/repository/docker/litmuschaos/ansible-runner)
+ - [litmuschaos/chaos-operator](https://cloud.docker.com/u/litmuschaos/repository/docker/litmuschaos/chaos-operator)
+ - [litmuschaos/chaos-exporter](https://cloud.docker.com/u/litmuschaos/repository/docker/litmuschaos/chaos-exporter)
+
+- Tracking of releases is done on Github [project board](https://github.com/litmuschaos/litmus/projects)
+
+- The flow of the release is done by the following steps:
+ - Sprint Planning with feature request from the community
+ - Development of feature
+ - RC1 build
+ - More RC build will be done on a need basis
+ - Testing is done after the RC1 build
+ - Cherry picking the commits to the release branch post RC build
+ - Release is done
+
+- Releases
+ - Pre Release Version (Development)
+
+
+ - Current version (Stable)
+
+
+ - Past Versions
+ Here you can find previous versions of the documentation.
+
+
+- For more info, please visit [here](https://docs.litmuschaos.io/versions/).