trivial: Update RELEASE to reflect our new Meson future

2 files changed, 51 insertions, 54 deletions

diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
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-GUsb Release Notes
-
-* Write NEWS entries for GUsb in the same format as usual.
-
-git shortlog gusb_0_2_11.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new
-
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Version 0.2.12
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Released: 2017-xx-xx
-
-Notes:
-
-New Features:
-
-Bugfixes:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-* Update library version if new ABI or API in configure.ac
-
-* Commit changes in git:
-
-git commit -a -m "Release version 0.2.12"
-git tag -s -f -m "Release 0.2.12" gusb_0_2_12
-<gpg password>
-git push --tags
-git push
-
-* run 'make dist'
-
-* Upload tarball to:
-
-scp *.tar.* hughsient@people.freedesktop.org:public_html/releases/
-
-* Do post release version bump in configure.ac
-
-* Commit trivial changes:
-
-git commit -a -m "trivial: post release version bump"
-git push
-
-* Send an email to devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
-
-=================================================
-GUsb 0.2.11 released!
-
-GUsb is a GObject wrapper for libusb1 that makes it easy to do
-asynchronous control, bulk and interrupt transfers with proper
-cancellation and integration into a mainloop.
-
-Tarballs available here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/releases/
-
-=================================================
-
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
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index 0000000..432fb27
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+++ b/RELEASE.md
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+GUsb Release Notes
+==================
+
+Write `NEWS` entries for GUsb in the same format as usual.
+
+    git shortlog gusb_0_2_11.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new
+    =================================================
+    Version 0.2.12
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+    Released: 2017-xx-xx
+
+    Notes:
+
+    New Features:
+
+    Bugfixes:
+    =================================================
+
+Update library version if new ABI or API in `meson.build`, commit, and build tarball:
+
+    # MAKE SURE THIS IS CORRECT
+    export release_ver="0.2.12"
+
+    git commit -a -m "Release version ${release_ver"
+    git tag -s -f -m "Release ${release_ver}" "${release_ver}"
+    <gpg password>
+    ninja dist
+    git push --tags
+    git push
+    gpg -b -a meson-dist/libgusb-${release_ver}.tar.xz
+
+Upload tarball:
+
+    scp meson-dist/libgusb-${release_ver}.tar.* hughsient@people.freedesktop.org:public_html/releases/
+
+Do post release version bump in `meson.build` and commit changes:
+
+    git commit -a -m "trivial: post release version bump"
+    git push
+
+Send an email to devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
+
+    =================================================
+    GUsb 0.2.11 released!
+
+    GUsb is a GObject wrapper for libusb1 that makes it easy to do
+    asynchronous control, bulk and interrupt transfers with proper
+    cancellation and integration into a mainloop.
+
+    Tarballs available here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/releases/
+    =================================================