From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 23:11:32 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Add updating the NEWS, RELEASE_NOTES files to the release process.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.8~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f90b5008ab92617460a7f4ca64c5581db2befe5;p=portage.git

Add updating the NEWS, RELEASE_NOTES files to the release process.
---

diff --git a/DEVELOPING b/DEVELOPING
index b704a50fb..a2c9ae154 100644
--- a/DEVELOPING
+++ b/DEVELOPING
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ should be replaced with:
 
 if foo is not None:
 
-Is not does a reference comparison (address1 = address2 basically) and 
+Is not does a reference comparison (address1 = address2 basically) and
 the == forces a by value compare (with __eq__())
 
 Dict Lookups
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ NO:
 
 Try not to import large numbers of things into the namespace of a module.
 I realize this is done all over the place in current code but it really makes it
-a pain to do code reflection when the namespace is cluttered with identifiers 
+a pain to do code reflection when the namespace is cluttered with identifiers
 from other modules.
 
 YES:
@@ -161,10 +161,13 @@ somewhat annoying because the import line needs to be modified when functions
 are needed and often unused functions are left in the import line until someone
 comes along with a linter to clean up (does not happen often).
 
+
 Releases
 --------
 
-First create a git tag for this release:
+First update the NEWS and RELEASE-NOTES files and commit.
+
+Second create a git tag for this release:
 	git tag v2.2.8
 
 Then create the tarball and run the tests: