llvmlite 0.44.0rc2 Checklist

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llvmlite 0.44.0rc2

• Cherry-pick items from the 0.44.0rc2 milestone into a PR targeting the release branch.
  • Cherry-picks for 0.44.0rc2 #1111
• Have cherry-pick-PR reviewed and merged.
• Make PR for updates to CHANGE_LOG
  • Update changelog for v0.44.0rc2 #1115
• Test HEAD of release branch on buildfarm (pre-tag testing):
  • conda package build and test. (llvmlite_323)
  • wheel build. (llvmlite_wheel_76)
• Annotated tag v0.44.0rc2 on release branch (llvmlite tags DO have a v prefix). (https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/releases/tag/v0.44.0rc2)
• Build and upload conda packages on buildfarm (check "upload"). (llvmlite_324)
• Build wheels and sdist on the buildfarm (check "upload"). (llvmlite_wheel_77)
• Verify packages uploaded to Anaconda Cloud and copy to numba/label/main. (https://anaconda.org/numba/llvmlite/files?version=0.44.0rc2)
• Upload wheels and sdist to PyPI. (upload from ci_artifacts).
• Verify wheels for all platforms arrived on PyPi. (https://pypi.org/project/llvmlite/0.44.0rc2/#files)
• Verify ReadTheDocs build. (https://app.readthedocs.org/projects/llvmlite/builds/?version__slug=v0.44.0rc2)
• Send RC/FINAL announcement email / post announcement to discourse group.
• Post link to Twitter and Mastodon and anywhere else that is appropriate.

Post release

• Cherry-pick changes to the CHANGE_LOG to main. (FINAL ONLY)
• Clean up ci_artifacts by moving files to subdirectories
• Update release checklist template with any additional bullet points that
  may have arisen during the release.
• Ping Anaconda Distro team to trigger a build for defaults (FINAL ONLY).
• Close milestone (and then close this release issue).