This section should be updated by someone with the knowledge of the process. What's the way of creating a new branch in distgit and update of the gitolite conf without the file generated by the pdc?
@jnsamyak @ppolakov

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/infra/release_guide/mass_branching_checklist/ this page also needs to be updated on this topic :thumbsup:

Is this script still used? https://pagure.io/fork/lenkaseg/infra-docs-fpo/blob/4b5f904e3c97c011ef78c83a5a0d93b026b6dd8a/f/modules/release_guide/pages/mass_branching_checklist.adoc#_175

@patrikp @jnsamyak ping, how are you branching new release nowadays guys? Can Lenka remove the mentioned script?

Apologies for missing this, thanks @zlopez for pointing it out today, These changes look good to me!

How were we doing the PDC work, we were scraping all the package names from the pkg machine and negating it with the retired packages we had from lookaside. and then using that input to create branches.

Merging this, and I'll add new steps in another PR!