Fix documentation of MotdPhrase length (#254)

[ngircd-alex.git] / doc / HowToRelease.txt

diff --git a/doc/HowToRelease.txt b/doc/HowToRelease.txt
index d4d82bc79e2dcb979fe2fa03ff47940f30449a65..1905e184bf9f401a145ac175588a23559fdd472f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/HowToRelease.txt
+++ b/doc/HowToRelease.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 
                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
+                           http://ngircd.barton.de/
 
-                        (c)2001-2010 Alexander Barton,
-                    alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
-
+               (c)2001-2019 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
                ngIRCd is free software and published under the
                    terms of the GNU General Public License.
 
@@ -37,10 +36,11 @@ II. How to prepare a new ngIRCd release?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 a) Make sure the source tree is in a releasable state ;-)
+    - is the AUTHORS file up to date?
 
 b) Make sure you have working versions of GNU autoconf and GNU automake
    installed on the system you use for generating the release:
-   as of October 2010 we are using GNU autoconf 2.61 and GNU automake 1.10.1
+   as of October 2010 we are using GNU autoconf 2.67 and GNU automake 1.11.1
    which seem to work just fine.
 
 c) Update the files describing the new release:
@@ -65,13 +65,16 @@ h) Run "./autogen.sh" to update the ./configure script with the correct
 
 i) Run "./configure" to rebuild all generated Makefiles.
 
-j) Run "make distcheck" to generate the distribution archives.
+j) Run "make distcheck" (and "make dist-tarZ dist-xz") to generate all of the
+   distribution archives.
 
 k) Sign the distribution archive(s) using GnuPG: "gpg -b <archivefile>"
 
 l) Upload and distribute the newly generated ngIRCd release archive(s)
-   and GnuPG signatures.
+   and GnuPG signatures (to the website, its mirrors, and GitHub).
+
+m) Update the ngIRCd website and its mirrors!
 
-m) Write an announcement to the mailing list, freshmeat, Twitter, ...
+n) Write an announcement to the mailing list, Twitter, ...
 
-n) Relax :-)
+o) Relax :-)