Swift/HowToCutRelease

Steps to create a release of liberasurecode / pyeclib / swift
git checkout git pull --ff-only git tag -s git push gerrit
 * 1) Manually test latest master (or whatever sha is going to be released)
 * 2) Create patch with updated version number and release notes for each project and propose as gerrit patch.
 * 3) This also includes updating authors and mailmap
 * 4) See https://github.com/notmyname/git-stats to help update authors/mailmap info
 * 5) Once patches have landed, tag the release (https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/drivers.html#tagging-a-release):