docs/RELEASE.md

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   2 title: Steps to a Successful Release
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   5 # Steps to a Successful Release
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   7 1. Add all items to NEWS
   8 2. Update the contributors list in NEWS ("make git-contrib")
   9 3. Update the time and place in NEWS
  10 4. Update version in configure.ac and library numbers in Makefile.am
  11 5. Check that "make distcheck" works
  12 6. Tag the release ("make git-tag")
  13 7. Upload the documentation ("make doc-sync")
  14 8. Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones)
  15 9. Send announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS
  16 10. Update IRC topic ("/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released")