Retire gnu.org news.html in favour of savannah news.

* HACKING (Release Procedure): Add instructions for sending
a web release announcement to http://planet.gnu.org via
the savannah news manager.

Signed-off-by: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7ac504cfab6d7c7bbc3cd20a59b2a08b0c0384c3..d62d219e706c5de0f8115d1394e3a3cd69ba290d 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2008-09-07  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>
 
+       Retire gnu.org news.html in favour of savannah news.
+       * HACKING (Release Procedure): Add instructions for sending
+       a web release announcement to http://planet.gnu.org via
+       the savannah news manager.
+
        Add untested git push conflict testing to commit script.
        * clcommit.m4sh (func_check_conflicts): Test return status
        of 'git push --dry-run', and display an error on non-zero.

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 10d4bb3ac7936e5d6ea6f3fd2a75e1275ea1ac67..346ad15fa9e5dd1419c714337d6e0e21e3a02ebe 100644 (file)
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -719,9 +719,6 @@ or obtained by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
   an alpha release destined for alpha.gnu.org, then the files should be
   placed in the /incoming/alpha directory.
 
-* Send announcement to libtool@gnu.org and autotools-announce@gnu.org,
-  if not an alpha send to info-gnu@gnu.org as well.
-
 * Update version number in configure.ac and libltdl/configure.ac to next
   alpha number.  See http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/contribute.html
   for details of the numbering scheme.
@@ -731,13 +728,18 @@ or obtained by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 * Run ./commit.
 
 * Update the webpages, libtool.html will need to indicate the latest
-  release number and the news page should get a HTMLified copy of your
-  release announcement.
+  release number.
 
 * If not an alpha, upload new manual pages with cvs to:
   <yourusername>@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/webcvs/libtool
   (generate with `make -f[../]Makefile.maint web-manual').
 
+* Send announcement to libtool@gnu.org and autotools-announce@gnu.org,
+  if not an alpha send to info-gnu@gnu.org as well.
+
+* Post a copy of the release announcement to savannah news:
+  https://savannah.gnu.org/news/submit.php?group=libtool
+  which will automatically propogate to http://planet.gnu.org.
 
 
 13. Alpha release note template