Issue Template for Release managers (#7207)

* Creates a new issue template for releases Signed-off-by: Justin Florentine <[email protected]> * aligns release process with wiki docs Signed-off-by: Justin Florentine <[email protected]> --------- Signed-off-by: Justin Florentine <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Sally MacFarlane <[email protected]>
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+---
+name: Release Checklist
+about: items to be completed for each release
+title: ''
+labels: ''
+assignees: ''
+
+---
+
+- [ ] Confirm anything outstanding for release with other maintainers on #besu-release in Discord
+  - [ ] Notify maintainers about updating changelog for in-flight PRs 
+  - [ ] Update changelog if necessary, and merge a PR for it to main
+- [ ] Optional: for hotfixes, create a release branch and cherry-pick, e.g. `release-<version>-hotfix`
+- [ ] Optional: create a PR into main from the hotfix branch to see the CI checks pass
+- [ ] On the appropriate branch/commit, create a calver tag for the release candidate, format example: `24.4.0-RC2`
+- [ ] Sign-off with team; confirm tag is correct in #besu-release in Discord
+- [ ] Consensys staff start burn-in using the proposed release <version-RCX> tag
+- [ ] Sign off burn-in; convey burn-in results in #besu-release in Discord
+- [ ] Using the same git sha, create a calver tag for the FULL RELEASE, example format `24.4.0`
+- [ ] Using the FULL RELEASE tag, create a release in github to trigger the workflows. Once published:
+    - makes the release "latest" in github
+    - this is now public and notifies subscribed users
+    - publishes artefacts and version-specific docker tags
+    - publishes the docker `latest` tag variants
+- [ ] Draft homebrew PR
+- [ ] Draft documentation release
+- [ ] Ensure binary SHAs are correct on the release page
+- [ ] Docker release startup test:
+    - `docker run hyperledger/besu:<version>`
+    - `docker run hyperledger/besu:<version>-arm64`
+    - `docker run --platform linux/amd64 hyperledger/besu:<version>-amd64`
+    - `docker run --pull=always hyperledger/besu:latest` (check version is <version>)
+- [ ] Merge homebrew PR
+- [ ] Publish Docs Release
+- [ ] Social announcements