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- Any besu contributor may bring forth the need for an off-cycle release
- including justification of why the release is warranted
- via the besu-contributors channel in Discord
- Ideally, consensus is reached
- Scope for the release also needs to be agreed.
- via the besu-release channel in Discord
- If the contributor that brought forth the need has the support of one external group (defined as a contributor outside of their own organization, i.e. ConsenSys), the release can continue at an agreed upon time
If no consensus is reached after 24 hours, a singular organization or group of contributors may propose a release, and request approval following normal PR review process
Justification
- critical bug affecting a number of users
- regular release process will not address the issue in time