Release-Manager-Tasks.md

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   - __Announce soft feature freeze:__ This is the last opportunity to __announce__ changes to release manager, i.e. by adding a comment to the release issue in gitlab task and setting the milestone in the gitlab issue to the release. See email examples [here](#example-emails)
   - __Subtask Check-in:__ Check in with the managers of the sub-tasks. Make sure anyone who needs further assistance or guidance gets it.
 
+## [2 weeks] prior to the release:
+
+__Hard Feature Freeze!__
+
+* __Check remaining tasks:__ Check remaining merge requests and issues, if they only fix bugs or documentation, they can still be added or worked on. Otherwise postpone them until after the release.
+
+* __Update the milestone issue:__ Remove all completed tasks and compile a list of issues and merge
+requests that are still to be resolved. Provide links to the release branches. Make sure all of the
+remaining tasks have been assigned to someone.
+
+* __Changelog:__ Check whether the file CHANGELOG is up-to-date. You can see all commit messages since
+the last release (assumed to have taken place 2019-10-11) by
+```
+git log --since="2019-10-11" or by
+git log TAG...HEAD
+```
+where `TAG` is the tag of the last release (e.g. releases/3.1)
+
+* __Announce Freeze:__ Announce hard feature freeze. Explain how no further changes to the code,
+except for bugfixes and documentation will be accepted. See email examples [here](#example-emails).
+
+* __Install Scripts:__ Update all install scripts and the install text in the handbook. Test them according
+to the text in the handbook.
+
+
 
 
 ## Example emails