A new release manager needs to obtain all permissions needed.

DoDs (permissions):

• GitHub repos
  • Check that you are the part of istio team in the sail operator midstream GitHub.
    • Check https://github.com/orgs/openshift-service-mesh/teams/release-managers 
    • If you don't see yourself, ask in #forum-ossm-release to be added
• GitLab
  • https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/istio/konflux 
    • Check https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/groups/istio/konflux/-/group_members?sort=last_joined 
    • If you don't see yourself, ask in #forum-ossm-release to be added
• Konflux
  • service-mesh-tenant
    • If you are not able to see service-mesh-tenant there, ask in #forum-ossm-release to be added as Maintainer 

Make sure that you are able to login into konflux cluster via

oc login https://api.stone-prod-p02.hjvn.p1.openshiftapps.com:6443/ --web 

You will need that for release.