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2022-05-01unposted: Mention #zsh topic in creating-a-releasedana1-1/+2
Per off-list suggestion
2022-04-02unposted: creating-a-release: Normalise white space, clarify some stepsdana1-13/+21
(The need for these changes was discovered during the release of 5.8.1. Daniel suggested one. They were hinted at in security/107)
2020-07-1446244 (cont.): Flesh out the TODO from the previous commit.Daniel Shahaf1-2/+19
2020-07-1446244: Start to introduce a release managers keyring.Daniel Shahaf1-0/+6
2019-12-2145101: Adjust white spacedana1-4/+8
2019-12-2145101: Document new dev/test versioning scheme, clarify other release stepsdana1-9/+30
Also clarified the purpose of dev/test releases as suggested in workers/45104. Note that the old versioning scheme remains in effect until after 5.8 final has been released.
2019-01-27unposted: Update release instructionsdana1-2/+42
2019-01-0443970: Update NEWS for previously unmentioned features in 5.{4,5,6}dana1-0/+4
Also clarify release documentation and fix a typo mentioned in workers/43971
2018-09-1243447: Generate tar.xz artifacts only.Daniel Shahaf1-2/+0
2018-09-08unposted: creating-a-release.txt: Add another step.Daniel Shahaf1-0/+1
2018-09-0643392: dist: Generate doc/help/* and doc/help.txt in builddir rather than ↵Daniel Shahaf1-5/+0
srcdir. Fixes creating tarballs in out-of-tree builds. While here, remove the instruction to build zsh before building a tarball, since that's unneeded.
2018-09-05unposted (cf 43373): Add two caveats: no local modifications, and need to ↵Daniel Shahaf1-0/+7
build in-tree.
2018-09-0343370: New maintainer-facing documentation.Daniel Shahaf1-0/+60