Add Release Guide

RELEASE_GUIDE.txt

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+Release Guide
+=============
+
+Release libstrophe and libmesode if required
+
+Run Unit tests
+Run Functional tests - Currently disabled
+Run manual valgrind tests for new features
+Build and simple tests in Virtual machines
+    ideally all dists including OSX and Windows (Cygwin)
+
+Update Inline help
+Check copright dates in all files (Copywright 2012-2019)
+
+Generate HTML docs (the docgen argument only works when package status is development)
+    ./profanity docgen
+Update plugin docs
+Update CHANGELOG
+Update profrc.example
+
+Creating artefacts
+    Clone the repository
+    Set the correct release version in configure.ac:
+        AC_INIT([profanity], [0.6.0], [boothj5web@gmail.com])
+    Set the package status in configure ac:
+        PACKAGE_STATUS="release"
+    Commit
+    Tag (0.6.0)
+    Push
+    Set version to next release
+        AC_INIT([profanity], [0.7.0], [boothj5web@gmail.com])
+    Set the pacakge status back to dev
+        PACKAGE_STATUS="development"
+    Create a branch for patch releases (0.6.patch)
+    Push
+    Clone the repository into a fresh folder and checkout the tag
+        git clone https://github.com/boothj5/profanity.git profanity-0.6.0
+        cd profanity-0.6.0
+        git checkout 0.6.0
+    Remove files not needed in the artefcat
+        rm -rf apidocs .git
+        rm CHANGELOG configure-debug configure-plugins .gitignore profanity.spec prof.supp README.md theme_template travis-build.sh .travis.yml
+    Bootstrap the build
+        ./bootstrap.sh
+    Remove automake cache
+        rm -rf autom4te.cache
+    Leave the folder and create the artefacts
+        cd ..
+        tar -zcvf profanity-0.6.0.tar.gz profanity-0.6.0
+        zip -r profanity-0.6.0.zip profanity-0.6.0
+
+Updating website
+    Make changes to the git repo incuding uploading the new artefacts:
+        https://github.com/boothj5/www_profanity_im
+    Email boothj5web@gmail.com to get them published to the website
+
+Usually release candidates are tagged 0.6.0.rc1, 0.6.0.rc2 and tested for a week or so
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