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Commit bd2a1d02 authored by Nick Mathewson's avatar Nick Mathewson :game_die:
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Update description of release practices

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......@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ new Tor release:
to a release-0.2.x branch, manually commit the changelogs to the later
git branches too.
3. If you're doing the first stable release in a series, you need to
3. If you're doing the first stable release in a series, you need to
create a ReleaseNotes for the series as a whole. To get started
there, copy all of the Changelog entries from the series into a new
file, and run `./scripts/maint/sortChanges.py` on it. That will
......@@ -164,12 +164,15 @@ new Tor release:
0.2.2.23-alpha" (or whatever the version is), and we select the date as
the date in the ChangeLog.
5. Wait up to a day or two (for a development release), or until most
packages are up (for a stable release), and mail the release blurb and
changelog to tor-talk or tor-announce.
5. Mail the release blurb and ChangeLog to tor-talk (development release) or
tor-announce (stable).
(We might be moving to faster announcements, but don't announce until
the website is at least updated.)
Post the changelog on the the blog as well. You can generate a
blog-formatted version of the changelog with the -B option to
format-changelog.
When you post, include an estimate of when the next TorBrowser releases
will come out that include this Tor release.
=== V. Aftermath and cleanup
......@@ -182,4 +185,5 @@ new Tor release:
2. Forward-port the ChangeLog (and ReleaseNotes if appropriate).
3. Keep an eye on the blog post, to moderate comments and answer questions.
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