docs: update RELEASE.md
This PR aims at refreshing the release documentation for apm-server. I'll use it to collect changes as I go through the release process as release manager.
Closes #12864
This pull request does not have a backport label. Could you fix it @endorama? 🙏 To fixup this pull request, you need to add the backport labels for the needed branches, such as:
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backport-7.17is the label to automatically backport to the 7.17 branch. -
backport-8./dis the label to automatically backport to the8./dbranch./dis the digit.
NOTE: backport-skip has been added to this pull request.
@carsonip thanks for pointing to the doc release. I'll dig into that.
Thank you @kruskall for the super fast re-review! I'll wait @carsonip opinion before merging as we started this PR as a sort of brain dump from him and I'd like a final :heavy_check_mark: from him.