## Summary Adds a reference page for releasing a Starcraft application, with two checklists and per-app quick links. - **Patch release**: backport on `hotfix/<major>.<minor>`, tag, candidate build, promote, then merge the release branch back into `main` via a `work/hotfix-merge/<version>` branch. - **Minor release**: split into *Release to candidate* (hotfix branch merge check, release notes page, tag, Launchpad sync, recipe branch switch, soak, Read the Docs version, calls for testing) and *Promote to stable*. - **Quick links**: one tab per app (Charmcraft, Debcraft, Imagecraft, Rockcraft, Snapcraft) with Launchpad, Matrix, Discourse, release notes, store, and GitHub links. Every URL was verified against Launchpad, the Discourse APIs, and each project's `docs/conf.py`. ## Changes outside the new page - `docs/conf.py`: drops `reference` from `exclude_patterns`, which meant nothing in that directory could be published. - `docs/index.rst` and `docs/reference/index.rst`: add the reference section and the page to their toctrees. ## Known gaps - Debcraft has no published docs site, so its tab has no release notes row. - Matrix rooms were taken from each repo's `docs/conf.py`; Imagecraft's was corrected to `#imagecraft` manually. ## Verification - `sphinx-lint` clean with `--enable all`. - `sphinx-build` succeeds with no new warnings.