[VOL-5009] - Update release notes

config.mk
makefiles/*
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  o Refresh library makefiles from https://github.com/opencord/onf-make.
  o More lint targets added with exclusions in config.mk

makefiles/virtualenv.mk
patches/lib/python3.10/site-packages/robot/utils/normalizing.py/patch
patches/lib/python3.10/site-packages/robot/utils/robottypes3.py/patch
patches/python_310_migration.sh
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  o Continue normalizing virtualenv install directory.
  o Update patches to modify .venv VS vst_venv [, vdoc_venv, vfoo_venv, vbar_venv, ...)
  o virtualenv.mk now defines named targets for patching-up-to 3.10 installs.

release_notes/voltha_2.12.rst
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  o Update version string info.
  o Onos component table condensed and populated with versioned urls.
  o voltha components table is a WIP.

howto/release/repositories/
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  o Begin capturing repo-specific activities for release.
  o Silly having to figure this out each release cycle.
  o Automation and release helper scripts can be found here:
    - https://github.com/joey-onf/voltha-release

sphinx_conf/exclude_patterns.py
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  o Roach squashing exercise, external repos pulled in as git-submodules.
  o New repository files appear as problems when running 'make reload'
  o Exclude files to squelch messages.

Change-Id: I7adf7b84498511f5cde1e43ad304f9e33283241e
diff --git a/makefiles/bin/compare_sandbox_makefiles.sh b/makefiles/bin/compare_sandbox_makefiles.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6075386
--- /dev/null
+++ b/makefiles/bin/compare_sandbox_makefiles.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2022-2023 Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and the ONF Contributors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-2023 Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and the ONF Contributors
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# https://gerrit.opencord.org/plugins/gitiles/onf-make
+# ONF.makefile.version = 1.0
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Intent: This script is used to bulk refactor and merge makefile changes
+##  between development repositories and repo:onf-make.
+## -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+## -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+## Intent:
+## -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+function error
+{
+    echo "$*"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+##----------------##
+##---]  MAIN  [---##
+##----------------##
+# src="$HOME/projects/sandbox/onf-make/makefiles"
+# src="$HOME/projects/sandbox/ci-management/makefiles"
+src="$HOME/projects/sandbox/onf-make-all/20230709/makefiles"
+
+dst="$(realpath .)"
+
+[[ $# -eq 0 ]] && error "At least one directory or file is required"
+
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+    fyl=$1; shift
+
+    echo "FYL: $fyl"
+    if [ -d "$fyl" ]; then
+	readarray -t fyls < <(find "$fyl" -type f -print)
+	[[ ${#@} -gt 0 ]] && fyls+=("$@")
+	# declare -p fyls
+	[[ ${#fyls} -gt 0 ]] && set -- "${fyls[@]}"
+	continue
+    fi
+
+    case "$fyl" in
+  	    *~) continue ;;
+  	 '#*#') continue ;;
+	'\.#*') continue ;;
+    esac
+    
+    src0="$src/$fyl"
+    dst0="$dst/$fyl"
+
+    [[ ! -e "$src0" ]] && error "File does not exist in src= $src0"
+    [[ ! -e "$dst0" ]] && error "File does not exist in dst= $dst0"
+
+    if ! diff -qr "$src0" "$dst0"; then
+	emacs "$src0" "$dst0"
+    fi
+done
+
+# [EOF]
+