rclone/RELEASE.md

Extra required software for making a release

• github-release for uploading packages
• pandoc for making the html and man pages

Making a release

• git status - make sure everything is checked in
• Check travis & appveyor builds are green
• make check
• make test
• make tag
• edit docs/content/changelog.md
• make doc
• git status - to check for new man pages - git add them
• git commit -a -v -m "Version v1.XX"
• make retag

• Set the GOPATH for a current stable go compiler

• make cross
• git push --tags origin master
• git push --tags origin master:stable # update the stable branch for packager.io

• Wait for the appveyor and travis builds to complete then fetch the windows binaries from appveyor

• make fetch_windows
• make upload
• make upload_website
• make upload_github
• make startdev

• announce with forum post, twitter post, G+ post

Early in the next release cycle update the vendored dependencies

• make update
• git status
• git add new files
• carry forward any patches to vendor stuff
• git commit -a -v

Make the version number be just in a file?