Steps to release admiral

Prerequisites

You are an admin on the admiral github project (to cut the release)
You have access to admiral slack channel and AdmiralProj twitter account (to make release announcements)
Validate that the master branch build is passing

Draft the release notes

The release notes is maintained here. Open a PR to the release notes ahead of time and get it reviewed.

What to cover

Any major features and examples on how to use them
Bug fixes
Any other callouts, like support for newer versions of Istio/Cloud Vendors

How to find the issues/commits

You can find the issues associated with a milestone to get started.
Commits between last release (the link assumes v1.0) and master branch

Draft a new release on github.com

Go to new release page
Create a release with the following: Tag version = tag that matches a milestone being released (Ex: v1.1). Release title = same as Tag version Description = Ex: https://github.com/istio-ecosystem/admiral/blob/master/docs/ReleaseNotes.md#v11 (note that v11 comes from tag v1.1)

Final checklist

Make sure the admiral release tag is published here
Merge the release notes PR
Make sure the links in the release notes work
Make announcements
- On istio Admiral slack channel
- Tweet about it Admiral Twitter