RELEASING: Add this file describing the steps to make a release.

These steps might be changing a bit as we work on making the initial
0.1 release.

diff --git a/RELEASING b/RELEASING
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+Here are the steps to follow to create a new notmuch release:
+
+1) Verify that what you want to release is committed. The release
+   process will release the code from the current HEAD commit.
+
+2) Verify that the NEWS file is up to date.
+
+       Read through the entry at the top of the NEWS file and see if
+       you are aware of any major features recently added that are
+       not mentioned there. If so, pleas add them, (and ask the
+       authors of the commits to update NEWS in the future).
+
+3) Verify that the notmuch test suite passes.
+
+       Currently this is by running:
+
+               ./test/notmuch-test
+
+       And manually verifying that every test says PASS. We plan to
+       fix this to automatically check the results and even to
+       automatically run the test suite as part of a Makefile target
+       described below.
+
+4) Increment the libnotmuch library version in lib/Makefile.local
+
+       See the instructions there for how to increment it. The
+       command below can be useful for inspecting header-file changes
+       since the last release X.Y.Z:
+
+               git diff X.Y.Z..HEAD -- lib/notmuch.h
+
+       Note: We currently don't plan to increment
+       LIBNOTMUCH_VERSION_MAJOR beyond 1, so if there *are*
+       incompatible changes to the library interface, then
+       stop. Don't release. Figure out the plan on the notmuch
+       mailing list.
+
+       Commit this change.
+
+5) Increment the notmuch version in Makefile.local
+
+       For most releases we'll just increment the minor number. For
+       major milestones of usability we'll increment the major
+       number.
+
+       Commit this change.
+
+6) Run "make release-publish" which will perform the following steps:
+
+       * Check that the notmuch version consists of only two components
+       * Check that no release exists with the current version
+       * Verify that "make dist" completes successfully
+       * Generate the final tar file
+       * Generate an sha1sum file
+       * Sign the sha1sum using your GPG setup (asks for your GPG password)
+       * scp the three files to appear on http://notmuchmail.org/releases
+       * Place local copies of the three files in the releases directory
+       * Create a LATEST-notmuch-version file (after deleting any old one)
+       * 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 the notmuch version by adding a .1 micro number, commit, and push.
+
+8) Send a message to notmuch@notmuchmail.org to announce the release.
+
+       Use the text from the new entry to NEWS.

diff --git a/lib/Makefile.local b/lib/Makefile.local
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@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
 # As such, this number must be incremented for any incompatible change to
 # the library interface, (such as the deletion of an API or a major
 # semantic change that breaks formerly functioning code).
+#
+# Note: We don't currently have plans to increment this at this time.
+# If we *do* want to make an incompatible change to the library
+# interface, we'll have to decide whether to increment this (creating
+# a new soname) or to introduce symbol versioning to be able to
+# provide support for both old and new interfaces without having to
+# increment this.
 LIBNOTMUCH_VERSION_MAJOR = 1
 
 # The minor version of the library interface. This should be incremented at