[cairo-commit] Branch '1.0' - RELEASING

[Behdad Esfahbod]

 RELEASING |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

New commits:
diff-tree e94251861565ed154e15ca3a7198ffe3828536fe (from 98facc6c2d0f57f05de7b98c2aaa592c895d1a09)
Author: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at home.(none)>
Date:   Wed Mar 15 15:17:26 2006 -0500

    Clarify that git tag -s does GPG signing.

diff --git a/RELEASING b/RELEASING
index 8020404..49dd82c 100644
--- a/RELEASING
+++ b/RELEASING
@@ -68,8 +68,13 @@ Here are the steps to follow to create a
 	* scp the three files to appear on http://cairographics.org/releases
 	* Place local copies of the three files in the releases directory
 	* Create a LATEST-package-version file (after deleting any old one)
-	* Tag the entire source tree with a tag of the form X.Y.Z
+	* Tag the entire source tree with a tag of the form X.Y.Z, and sign
+	  the tag with your GPG key (asks for your GPG password, and you
+	  may need to set GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL to match
+	  your public-key's setting or this fails.)
 	* Provide some text for the release announcement (see below).
+	  If for some reason you lost this message, "make release-publish-message"
+	  prints it for you.
 
 7) Increment cairo_version_micro to the next larger (odd) number in
    configure, and commit.