Document how to roll a release for the next time.

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 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Id$
 
+  17 Dec 2009; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> HACKING:
+  Document how to roll a release for the next time.
+
   17 Dec 2009; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> genkernel:
   Tag 3.4.10.907 release.
 

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 - source global scripts
 - 
 
+Rolling a release:
+- Bump the version in the main genkernel file.
+- echangelog commit the bump
+- git tag -a -m "Tag release $PV" v${PV}
+- git archive --prefix genkernel-$PV/ --format tar -o /tmp/genkernel-${PV}.tar v${PV}
+- bzip2 -9v /tmp/genkernel-${PV}.tar
+- upload /tmp/genkernel-${PV}.tar.bz2 to the hosting.