Add scripts to handle most of the first couple steps of creating a release.

reltools/release_step1.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Step 1 of creating a release:
+#  Determine whether a release is worth doing
+
+set -e -o pipefail
+
+RUNDIR=$(dirname "$0")
+
+. "${RUNDIR}/reltools.subr"
+set_rel_vars
+
+cat <<EOF
+RELTAG=${RELTAG}
+RELVER=${RELVER}
+RELBRANCH=${RELBRANCH}
+RELBASE=${RELBASE}
+NEXT_RELVER=${NEXT_RELVER}
+
+Analyze previous release branch to see if anything should have been
+ applied to master:
+
+git log -r "${RELBASE}..${RELBRANCH}" | less
+
+Check commit logs between previous branch point and now for notable changes.
+
+git log --reverse -r "${RELBASE}"..master | less
+
+Starting shell:
+EOF
+
+$SHELL
+
+echo "$0: done"

reltools/release_step2.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Step 2 of creating a release:
+#  We've decided a release is worth doing
+#   Update automatic bits
+#   Collect information needed to populate changelog, etc...
+
+set -e -o pipefail
+
+RUNDIR=$(dirname "$0")
+
+cd "${RUNDIR}"
+
+./gen_issues_closed.sh
+
+../abi-check.sh
+
+./update_authors.sh
+
+./check_symbols.sh || true
+