The current commit history https://github.com/numpy/numpy-release repo needs some review. The first couple of commits port over the wheel/sdist building content from the main numpy/numpy repo, and then the next commits improve the build configs and adapt it for building from a separate repo.

As of right now, the code should be in good shape and the last CI job with a full set of wheel builds is happy. What is not yet done is hooking up trusted publishing and the anaconda.org publishing secret for nightlies - that should be done only after the code review is done.

• Review the commits up to numpy/numpy-release@6a48687 in the numpy-release repo
• Review the repository settings (branch protection rules, whitelisting of github actions, etc.)

The second part can be done by @charris, @mattip or @andyfaff, as they're in the @numpy/release-team which has admin access to the repo.

After that is done, the next steps are:

• Enable nightly wheel builds on main and start uploading them to anaconda.org. Remove nightly wheel builds from this repo at that point.
• Enable trusted publishing, and create a maintenance/2.3.x branch in the numpy-release repo.
  • Remove most of wheels.yml from this repo at that point (see CI: run some wheel build jobs by default, and clean up the rest #29540).
• Add a detailed step-by-step release process in the README of the repo and adjust the other relevant documents: doc/HOWTO_RELEASE.rst, doc/RELEASE_WALKTHROUGH.rst, doc/BRANCH_WALKTHROUGH.rst (see DOC: update documentation on how to prepare and do a release #29732).