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To avoid having really old metadata

```
[16:07:17] jon@jon-desktop /home/jon/projects/nixpkgs (staging)
$ git describe
18.09-beta-110115-gb20838eb4a0
```
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Jonathan Ringer committed Jan 5, 2021
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4. [Update `codeName` in
`lib/trivial.nix`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/01268fda85b7eee4e462c873d8654f975067731f#diff-03f3d41b68f62079c55001f1a1c55c1dR137)
This will be the name for the next release.

5. Tag unstable so that `git describe` shows the correct metadata.
```sh
git tag --annotate 20.03-pre
```

5. [Create a new release notes file for the upcoming release +
6. [Create a new release notes file for the upcoming release +
1](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/01268fda85b7eee4e462c873d8654f975067731f#diff-e7ee5ff686cdcc513ca089d6e5682587R11),
in our case this is `rl-2003.xml`.

6. Contact the infrastructure team to create the necessary Hydra
7. Contact the infrastructure team to create the necessary Hydra
Jobsets.

7. [Create a channel at https://nixos.org/channels by creating a PR to
8. [Create a channel at https://nixos.org/channels by creating a PR to
nixos-org-configurations, changing`channels.nix`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-org-configurations/blob/master/channels.nix)

8. Get all Hydra jobsets for the release to have their first
9. Get all Hydra jobsets for the release to have their first
evaluation.

9. [Create an issue for tracking Zero Hydra Failures progress.
10. [Create an issue for tracking Zero Hydra Failures progress.
ZHF is an effort to get build failures down to zero.](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/13559)

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