Integrate release creation docs from SVN

(was at svn.zope.org/repos/main/zope2docs/trunk/maintenance/index.rst)

.gitignore

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 /build
 /develop
 /develop-eggs
+/doc/.build
 /dist
 /eggs
 /parts

doc/INSTALL.rst

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-Installing and Zope with ``zc.buildout``
-========================================
+Installing Zope with ``zc.buildout``
+====================================
 
 .. highlight:: bash
 

doc/index.rst

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-
-Zope 4.0 specific documentation
-===============================
+Zope documentation
+==================
 
 Contents:
 
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    SETUID.rst
    SIGNALS.rst
    DEBUGGING.rst
+   maintenance.rst
    CHANGES.rst
-

doc/maintenance.rst

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+Maintenance information
+========================
+
+.. note::
+
+   This is internal documentation for Zope developers having
+   to create official Zope releases.
+
+Release process
+---------------
+
+Maintainers
++++++++++++
+
+The following persons have access to the ``Zope2`` package on PyPI
+(in order to release new versions):
+
+- Hanno Schlichting
+
+Steps for creating a new Zope release
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+- check the versions.cfg file for outdated or updated
+  packages and update version information where necessary
+
+- update version information:
+
+  - setup.py
+  - versions.cfg
+
+- update docs/CHANGES.rst
+
+- run all tests::
+
+   bin/alltests
+
+- tag the release
+
+- upload the tagged release to PyPI::
+
+    python2.7 setup.py egg_info -RDb '' sdist --formats=zip register upload
+
+- check the visible releases on readthedocs.org at (should default to
+  showing the active branches)::
+
+    https://readthedocs.org/dashboard/zope/versions/
+
+- close the released milestone::
+
+    https://launchpad.net/zope2/+milestone/2.13.15/+addrelease
+
+- update the status of all bugs associated with the released milestone::
+
+    https://launchpad.net/zope2/+milestone/2.13.15
+
+- update launchpad. Create a new next milestone at::
+
+    https://launchpad.net/zope2/2.13/+addmilestone