WIP: First draft of alpha release criteria for review (#1374)

* WIP: First draft of release criteria for review

* Update release-criteria.md

Fix formatting

* Added more details to release criteria

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* Add "Future Releases" section

* Remove Alpha Release criteria items

These should be included and expanded upon in future releases

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* Formatting fixes

* Remove support and troubleshooting criteria from first alpha release

* Switching functionality criteria between future and alpha release

* Remove redundant statement from "Network Readiness" section for "Future Releases"

* Go/No-Go checklist should be a living document

Let's make this a living document by making it clear that this reflects the latest status as of the "Last updated" date

* Update release-criteria.md

Update status after Go/No-Go meeting

* Make RAG status symbols more accessible

* Update release-criteria.md

- Remove "Future Releases" section
- Clean up formatting

* Update book/src/dev/release-criteria.md

change "`zebrad` can validate proof of work" from green to amber

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* Update book/src/dev/release-criteria.md

Change "Build completes within 30 minutes in Zebra's CI" from green to amber

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* Update book/src/dev/release-criteria.md

Change "known panics, errors and warnings have open tickets" and "`zebrad` executes normally" form amber to green

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* Rename release-criteria.md to alpha-release-criteria.md

We will have new release criteria for future releases

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book/src/dev/alpha-release-criteria.md

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+# Go/No-Go Release Criteria
+
+## Alpha Release
+
+In the first alpha release, we want Zebra to participate in the network and replicate the Zcash chain state. We also want to validate proof of work and the transaction merkle tree, and serve blocks to peers.
+
+### System Requirements
+
+Our CI tests that Zebra builds, passes its tests, and syncs to tip on the following configurations:
+* Ubuntu Linux ...
+
+Our CI tests that Zebra builds and passes its tests on the following configurations:
+* recent macOS ...
+* recent Windows ...
+
+### Build Requirements
+
+Our CI builds Zebra with:
+* Rust stable
+* recent llvm
+* recent clang
+* recent libclang
+
+### Supported Platforms
+
+While Zebra is still in alpha, we don't guarantee support for any particular platforms.
+
+But you'll probably get the best results with a recent Ubuntu Linux, or the other platforms that our CI runs on.
+
+### Go/No-Go Status: 🛑
+
+_Last updated: November 30 2020_
+
+- `zebrad` Functionality
+    - `zebrad` can sync to mainnet tip
+        - ⚠️ under excellent network conditions (within 2 - 5 hours)
+        - _reasonable and sub-optimal network conditions are not yet supported_
+    - `zebrad` can stay within a few blocks of the mainnet tip after the initial sync
+        - ⚠️ under excellent network conditions
+        - _reasonable and sub-optimal network conditions are not yet supported_
+    - ⚠️  `zebrad` can validate proof of work
+    - 🛑 `zebrad` can validate the transaction merkle tree
+    - ⚠️ `zebrad` can serve blocks to peers
+- `zebrad` Performance
+    - ⚠️ `zebrad` functionality works on platforms that meet its system requirements
+- Testing
+    - ⚠️ CI Passes
+        - ✅  Unit tests pass reliably
+        - ✅  Property tests pass reliably
+        - ⚠️ Acceptance tests pass reliably
+- Implementation and Launch
+    - 🛑 All [release blocker bugs](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22First+Alpha+Release%22+label%3AC-bug) have been fixed
+    - ✅ Users can access the documentation to deploy `zebrad` nodes
+- User Experience
+    - ⚠️ Build completes within 30 minutes in Zebra's CI
+    - ✅ `zebrad` executes normally
+        - ✅ `zebrad`'s default logging works reasonably well in a terminal
+        - ✅ panics, error logs, and warning logs are rare on mainnet
+        - ✅ known panics, errors and warnings have open tickets