Update release publishing scripts (#9947)

* Remove version from URL in publish script. Otherwise, Chrome can cache the failure too aggressively.
* Move mention of creating new milestone to earlier report.
* Add mention of preparing release notes earlier.

scripts/GeneratePostPublishReport.py

 content += createTableRow("", "Optionally check that <a href=\"http://vaadin.com/download/maven-archetypes.xml\">old Eclipse metadata</a> still refers to Vaadin 7")
 content += createTableRow("", "Note that archetype metadata checks do not verify that the relevant sections are not commented out when changing from pre-release to stable and back!")
 
-# GitHub milestones
-content += createTableRow("", "<a href=\"https://github.com/vaadin/framework/milestones\">Create new milestone in GitHub</a>")
-
 content += createTableRow("", "Build and deploy new sampler if necessary")
 
 # Inform marketing and PO
 content += createTableRow("", "<a href=\"http://{}/admin/editProject.html?projectId={}&tab=projectParams\">Update vaadin.version.latest and vaadin.version.next parameters in TeamCity</a>".format(args.teamcityUrl, args.projectId))
 
 # Link to GH release notes
-content += createTableRow("", "<a href=\"https://github.com/vaadin/framework/releases/new\">Write release notes in GH</a>")
+content += createTableRow("", "<a href=\"https://github.com/vaadin/framework/releases\">Finish and publish release notes in GH</a>")
 
 content += "</table></body></html>"
 

scripts/GeneratePublishReportPart1.py

 
 mavenUrl = ""
 if not prerelease:
-	mavenUrl = "http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/vaadin/vaadin-server/{ver}".format(ver=args.version)
+	mavenUrl = "http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/vaadin/vaadin-server/"
 	content += "<tr><td></td><td><a href='{mvnUrl}'>Check {ver} is published to maven.org (might take a while)</td></tr>".format(ver=args.version, mvnUrl=mavenUrl)
 else:
-	mavenUrl = "http://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-prereleases/com/vaadin/vaadin-server/{ver}".format(ver=args.version)
+	mavenUrl = "http://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-prereleases/com/vaadin/vaadin-server/"
 	content += "<tr><td></td><td><a href='{mvnUrl}'>Check {ver} is published as prerelease to maven.vaadin.com</td></tr>".format(ver=args.version, mvnUrl=mavenUrl)
 
 content += "<tr><td></td><td><a href=\"https://github.com/vaadin/framework/milestones\">Create milestone for next version in GitHub</a></td></tr>"
 content += "<tr><td></td><td>Run the generated tag_repositories.sh script</td></tr>"
 
 # close GitHub milestone
-content += "<tr><td></td><td><a href=\"https://github.com/vaadin/framework/milestones\">Close GitHub Milestone</a></td></tr>"
+content += "<tr><td></td><td><a href=\"https://github.com/vaadin/framework/milestones\">Close GitHub Milestone and create one for next version</a></td></tr>"
+
+# release notes
+content += "<tr><td></td><td><a href=\"https://github.com/vaadin/framework/releases/new\">Prepare release notes in GH</a></td></tr>"
 
 content += """
 <tr><td></td><td><a href="http://{teamcityUrl}/viewLog.html?buildId={buildId}&buildTypeId={buildTypeId}&tab=dependencies"><h2>Start Post-Publish Release from dependencies tab</a></td></tr>