This should be from guilin branch, not from master, but that branch does not exist yet. Changes on master are minimal and do not effect functionality in this release.

Note that this also includes the functional change for this release due to the minimal nature of the change.

 
Collect aaf data initialization: https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/AAF+Initialization+Data

Steps:

1. Modify version.properties to set patch=1, and commit the change for approval
2.  After merge, hit gerrit reply and send: stage-release
   1. smoke test the docker images
3. After release is staged, commit files to request push to repositories
   1. obtain the stage job's log path
   2. create releases/2.7.1.yaml (use existing file as template) and add in the stage job's log path
   3. commit change for approval