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Renames RELEASE.md to RELEASING.md for a consistent name across repos, folds in the release-please guide, and applies review feedback.

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RELEASING.md now describes automated stable releases from main and pre-releases from develop, including release-please steps, versioning rules, and commit conventions.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document release workflows RELEASING.md	The guide explains how to run and review release-please workflows for stable and pre-releases. It documents commit-type changelog categories, version-bump rules, commit-message overrides, and breaking-change notation.

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The title "chore: consolidate release guide into RELEASING.md" matches the changeset. The PR adds RELEASING.md, which documents the release-please stable and pre-release workflows, version bumps, changelog sections, commit overrides, breaking-change markers, and the develop/main branch flow. The title names the main change, the new release guide file. The word "consolidate" suggests merging existing release guides, but the summary and objectives describe only a new RELEASING.md file (+49/-0) with no removed or merged source documents. This wording is slightly broader than the changeset shows, but it is not off-topic.

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 39.34%. Comparing base (1ac069b) to head (311739d).

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🟡 Changes recommended

The release instructions omit required explicit-version selection, squash-merging for commit overrides, and the release: merge-message prefix, which can cause incorrect versions, unintended release notes, or skipped publishing.

3 open issues

• Require explicit bump type for requested release version · New
• Require release-prefixed commit message to trigger publishing · New
• Document squash-merge prerequisite for commit overrides · New

What changed in this PR

Adds a concise release guide for the Java SDK’s existing release-please automation. This is a documentation-only change.

Changes:

• Describes how to initiate stable releases and pre-releases.
• Explains version bumps and changelog sections derived from conventional commits.
• Documents commit overrides and breaking-change markers.

File	Description
RELEASING.md	Adds instructions for releases, versioning, and changelog customization.

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[Siddhant-K-code]

Main issues: no develop branch exists here, and this overlaps RELEASE.md with conflicting guidance. The rest are small clarifications.

[Siddhant-K-code]

Blocking points are fixed. Still open: the breaking-changes thread (single-commit PRs squash with the commit title, not the PR title).