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Update release instructions. #837

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  • Rename RELEASING to RELEASING.md.
  • Add additional structure and Markdown notation to RELEASING.md.
  • Add a section on the overall release and branching strategy.
  • Clarify and tweak instructions for making release candidates and releases.
  • Add instructions for making point releaases and back-porting bug fixes.
  • Rename build/start-new-rc.sh to build/do-release.sh.
  • Tweak do-release.sh to do only common tasks for rcs, major releases, and point releases.
  • Add -b option to do-release.sh which does a "bare" release without a new branch or tag (for "dev releases" on master).

Details:
- Rename RELEASING to RELEASING.md.
- Add additional structure and Markdown notation to RELEASING.md.
- Add a section on the overall release and branching strategy.
- Clarify and tweak instructions for making release candidates and releases.
- Add instructions for making point releaases and back-porting bug fixes.
- Rename build/start-new-rc.sh to build/do-release.sh.
- Tweak do-release.sh to do only common tasks for rcs, major releases, and point releases.
- Add -b option to do-release.sh which does a "bare" release without a new branch or tag (for "dev releases" on master).
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Updated release script has been tested.

…ion file and CHANGELOG done by do-release.sh).
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