diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 3346d64245..f6c267003a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -45,12 +45,6 @@ jobs:
 
           echo "PRIOR_VERSION_WHEN_PATCH=$prior_version_when_patch" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
-        # check out main branch to verify there won't be problems with merging the change log
-        # at the end of this workflow
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          ref: main
-
       - run: |
           if [[ -z $PRIOR_VERSION_WHEN_PATCH ]]; then
             # not making a patch release
@@ -60,6 +54,12 @@ jobs:
             fi
           fi
 
+      # check out main branch to verify there won't be problems with merging the change log
+      # at the end of this workflow
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          ref: main
+
         # back to the release branch
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
diff --git a/RELEASING.md b/RELEASING.md
index a30838130f..1547cec224 100644
--- a/RELEASING.md
+++ b/RELEASING.md
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@
     * If making a pre-release of stable components (e.g. release candidate),
       enter the pre-release version number, e.g. `1.9.0rc2`.
       (otherwise the workflow will pick up the version from `main` and just remove the `.dev` suffix).
-  * Review and merge the two pull requests that it creates
+  * Review the two pull requests that it creates.
     (one is targeted to the release branch and one is targeted to `main`).
+    * Merge the one targeted towards the release branch.
+    * The builds will fail for the `main` pr because of validation rules. Follow the [release workflow](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/blob/main/RELEASING.md) for the core repo up until this same point. Change the SHAs of each PR to point at each other to get the `main` builds to pass.
 
 ## Preparing a new patch release
 
diff --git a/scripts/build.sh b/scripts/build.sh
index e0c439c32e..fa490a6a35 100755
--- a/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/build.sh
@@ -32,16 +32,16 @@ DISTDIR=dist
    cd $DISTDIR
    for x in * ; do
     # FIXME: Remove this logic once these packages are available in Pypi
-    if (echo "$x" | grep -Eq ^opentelemetry_(instrumentation_aiohttp_server|resource_detector_container).*(\.tar\.gz|\.whl)$); then
+    if echo "$x" | grep -Eq "^opentelemetry_(instrumentation_aiohttp_server|resource_detector_container).*(\.tar\.gz|\.whl)$"; then
       echo "Skipping $x because of erroneous uploads. See: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/issues/2053"
       rm $x
     # FIXME: Remove this once opentelemetry-resource-detector-azure package goes 1.X
-    elif (echo "$x" | grep -Eq ^opentelemetry_resource_detector_azure.*(\.tar\.gz|\.whl)$); then
+    elif echo "$x" | grep -Eq "^opentelemetry_resource_detector_azure.*(\.tar\.gz|\.whl)$"; then
       echo "Skipping $x because of manual upload by Azure maintainers."
       rm $x
     # NOTE: We filter beta vs 1.0 package at this point because we can read the
     # version directly from the .tar.gz/whl file
-    elif (echo "$x" | grep -Eq ^opentelemetry_.*-0\..*(\.tar\.gz|\.whl)$); then
+    elif echo "$x" | grep -Eq "^opentelemetry_.*-0\..*(\.tar\.gz|\.whl)$"; then
       :
     else
       echo "Skipping $x because it is not in pre-1.0 state and should be released using a tag."