I'm going through Jim's review. It seems sensible now to feed the patches in one by one.
Here's the first. >From 52b48c111fed5d3708344c430dd59f819deeb77f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:40:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Improvements to README-release * top/README-release: fix punctuation and spacing. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ top/README-release | 6 ++++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 9c5a3cd..1d386a9 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1242,6 +1242,11 @@ 2011-12-22 Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> + Improvements to README-release + * top/README-release: fix punctuation and spacing. + +2011-12-19 Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> + .gitignore: ignore gnulib.dvi and regex.info * doc/.gitignore:add gnulib.dvi and regex.info diff --git a/top/README-release b/top/README-release index d6e032a..25e1dbf 100644 --- a/top/README-release +++ b/top/README-release @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when making a release. -* start from a clean, up-to-date git directory. +* Start from a clean, up-to-date git directory: make -k maintainer-clean || { ./configure && make maintainer-clean; } git checkout master @@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when making a release. the complete list of tools. * Ensure that you're on "master" with no uncommitted diffs. - This should produce no output: git checkout master; git diff + This should produce no output: + + git checkout master; git diff * Ensure that you've pushed all changes that belong in the release and that the NixOS/Hydra autobuilder is reporting all is well: -- 1.7.5.4 -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/