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+### Changed
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+- `README.md` is rewritten whole from the current tree: the front page names
+  the governance repo ceremony now is, routes to `docs/CONSUMERS.md`,
+  `AGENTS.md`, `LABELS.md` and `RELEASES.md` rather than restating them, and
+  keeps the operator's release runbook as its core, re-measured (#311).