Validate & Ship

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Validation and release workflows

Local validation, CI behavior, release execution, and distribution workflows.

Open testing strategyOpen release management

Covers

• local test depth before a branch is pushed
• CI-to-local command mapping and workflow failure triage
• release flow, artifact publication, and distribution mechanics
• the split between contributor checks and maintainer release responsibilities

Validate & ship guides

1. 01

   Testing strategy

   Map your change to unit, contract, integration, E2E, fuzzing, or manual validation work.

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2. 02

   Continuous integration

   Understand local command parity, CI stages, and the workflow gates maintainers expect to stay green.

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3. 03

   Release management

   Follow the release flow, promotion rules, and provenance requirements used for published builds.

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4. 04

   Distribution

   Review how the project publishes charts and artifacts and what is intentionally deferred.

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After the execution path

Project governanceSDLC, supply-chain, and dependency policy when the change affects project policy.Coding standardsCoding standards when CI is failing because the implementation still violates project conventions.