RFR: 8357000: Write overview documentation for start of release changes [v2]

[Joe Darcy]

On Wed, 21 May 2025 21:14:12 GMT, Iris Clark <iris at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Some of these changes require a CSR. Should that be mentioned somewhere?

I think "and all the usual review processes need to be followed" is implicit.

My main intention is to both summarize the concept of what is in the start-of-release changeset -- "all the bits and pieces that need to get incremented, get incremented" as well as listing out the current particulars, which does evolve slowly over time.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25317#issuecomment-2905941855