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+# Release Guide
+
+Usually release candidates are tagged 0.6.0.rc1, 0.6.0.rc2 and tested for a week or so.
+
+* Release libstrophe and libmesode if required
+
+* Run Unit tests: `make check-unit`
+* 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 at:
+        https://github.com/boothj5/www_profanity_im
+  * Email boothj5web@gmail.com to get them published to the website
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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
-
-
-
-
-