Add instructions for doing a release

[fontconfig.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 86cf4f949c0488ce0f7e1383f04f8ef136c3af2d..dcd6b3f135a353581c61622afd34e4670a302874 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -7,3 +7,16 @@ This should generate valid Makefiles, then:
        $ make
        $ make install
 
+If you're going to package fontconfig for release, there are several
+important steps:
+
+ 1.    Update the version numbers
+               configure.in
+               fontconfig/fontconfig.h
+ 2.    Fix the README
+               Change version number
+               Set the date
+ 3.    Commit those changes
+ 4.    tag the tree
+               cvs tag fc-2_2_xx
+ 5.    make dist