maint: update release instructions

* README-hacking: here.
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Akim Demaille
2012-07-06 10:14:49 +02:00
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@@ -249,7 +249,10 @@ that the skeletons insert into generated parsers, and check all
occurrences of PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR in configure.ac.
** Update NEWS, commit and tag.
See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release.
See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release. For a while, we used
beta names such as "2.6_rc1". Now that we use gnulib in the release
procedure, we must use "2.5.90", which has the additional benefit of
being properly sorted in "git tag -l".
** make alpha, beta, or stable
See README-release.