ICU-22533 Update BRS instructions for tagging release

unicode-org · Nov 10, 2023 · c4a090e · c4a090e
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@@ -113,7 +113,11 @@ Your screen should look like this:
 
 ![image](maint-63-rc-screenshot.png)
 
-For the release candidate tag, please check the box that says "Pre-Release".
+Check the box that says "Pre-Release".
+(Note: we now do this for the GA release as the first of two steps.
+The second step is to wait for the day of the official announcement of the release,
+and then to edit the Github release entry's settings to convert the "pre-release" status
+via that checkbox into a regular release.)
 
 We no longer need to add the note about Git LFS files, as GitHub now includes
 them in the auto-generated .zip downloads.