Release Checklist 23.10

[caryr35]

Release Checklist for v23.10:

Status	Task	Start	End	Owner
Pre-release
	Notification to team of last feature sprint in milestone	2023-09-18	2023-09-29	@mattahrens
	Burndown (no new features for current release)	2023-10-02	2023-10-13	Team
	Update docs for current release in spark-rapids without updating release links	2023-10-09	2023-10-13	Team
	Create a PR to update release links	2023-10-09	2023-10-09	Hao's Team
	Get RAPIDS 23.12 cudf java build working.	2023-09-25	2023-09-29	@pxLi
	Create 23.12 branch including spark-rapids-{jni,private} and spark-rapids	2023-09-28	2023-09-29	@pxLi
	Automerge from 23.10 to 23.12	2023-09-28	2023-09-29	@pxLi
	Enable Jenkins builds (premerge, nightly, integration, performance) for 23.10	2023-09-28	2023-10-03	@pxLi
	Virtual review	2023-10-09	2023-10-20	@mattf
	[spark-rapids-private 23.10] Java release to sonatype	2023-10-13	2023-10-13	@NvTimLiu
	[spark-rapids-jni 23.10] Java release to sonatype	2023-10-13	2023-10-13	@NvTimLiu
	[cudf 23.10] Java release to sonatype	2023-10-13	2022-10-13	@NvTimLiu
	Notify RAPIDS team of javadocs for 23.10	2023-10-16	2023-10-16	@GaryShen2008
Staging release
	Make 23.12 the default branch	2023-10-09	2023-10-09	@jlowe
	Merge all remaining branch-23.10 PRs	2023-10-13	2022-10-13	Team
	Update spark-rapids-jni dependency version	2023-10-13	2023-10-13	@pxLi
	Create CHANGELOG.md	2023-10-13	2023-10-13	@pxLi
	Deliver Snapshot packages to QA	2023-10-09	2023-10-09	@NvTimLiu
	Create a PR (not squashed) to merge from branch-23.12 to main. Needs review from repository owner	2023-10-13	2023-10-13	@NvTimLiu
	Trigger the release Jenkins job on the main branch and deploy the jar to sonatype staging (including spark-rapids-tools/core)	2023-10-17	2023-10-17	@NvTimLiu
	Deliver final packages to QA	2023-10-17	2023-10-17	@NvTimLiu
	Run integration tests on staging jars with AQE on, UCX on, Databricks Azure, Databricks AWS, Dataproc	2023-10-17	2023-10-20	@NvTimLiu
	Run LHA tests on staging jars	2023-10-17	2023-10-20	@NvTimLiu
	CDH testing	2023-10-12	2023-10-17	@NvTimLiu
	QA testing with Snapshot on YARN, NGC with Volta and Ampere	2023-10-09	2022-10-17	@yuange98
	Run pre-processing workflow for DLRM sample use case	2023-10-17	2023-10-23	@johnzhong
	QA testing with final packages on YARN, NGC with Volta and Ampere	2023-10-17	2023-10-20	@yuange98
Release
	Tag the release and deploy the staging artifacts to maven central repository	2023-10-25	2023-10-25	@NvTimLiu
	Update gh-pages	2023-10-23	2023-10-25	Hao's Team
	Test spark-rapids-examples repo with Spark-Rapids 23.10	2023-10-23	2023-10-25	Hao's Team
	Update docs for current release in spark-rapids-examples	2023-10-23	2023-10-25	Hao's Team
	Update spark-rapids.sh in https://github.com/GoogleCloudDataproc/initialization-actions/tree/master/spark-rapids for the plugin - GoogleCloudDataproc/initialization-actions#1107	2023-10-23	2023-10-25	Hao's Team

[pxLi]

the timeline is messed up like 23.08 one, most items are conflicting w/ others.

hi @caryr35 @mattahrens @sameerz can you help check what may be the issue? The template used for 2308 and 2310 is incorrect, thanks