Release of v15.0.2

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Description

This release is scheduled for: Wednesday 14 December 2022.

This issue lists the actions that need to be taken before/during/after the v15.0.2 release.

Pre-Release

• Make sure the release note summary is prepared and clean
  • Tracking issue: Prepare v15.0.2 release notes #11947
• Make sure backports are reviewed and merged onto release-15.0
  • v15 backport: Online DDL: fix 'vtctlclient OnlineDDL' template queries (#11889) #11951

Release

• Follow the release instructions for release: here
• v15.0.2 is released on GitHub and DockerHub
  • DockerHub
  • GitHub
• Release the version 2.8.2 of the vitess-operator
  • Release v2.8.2 planetscale/vitess-operator#348
• Merge the 15.0.2 release notes on main
  • Release notes for v15.0.2 #11963
  • [main] Update the release 15.0.2 summary doc (#11954) #11956
• Merge the 15.0.2 release notes on release-15.0
  • Release of v15.0.2 #11961
• Make sure arewefastyet benchmarks the new release (https://benchmark.vitess.io/status)

Post-Release

•  Back to dev mode on release-15.0
  • Back to dev mode after v15.0.2 #11962
• Notify the community on:
  • Slack
  • Twitter