maint: update release instructions

[bison.git] / README-hacking

diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index cfb4b31207f50da2b07d8374a560a5517ca758a9..d06d1389f9eb31afe7ef61563d58a7fc2349b489 100644 (file)
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -249,7 +249,10 @@ that the skeletons insert into generated parsers, and check all
 occurrences of PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR in configure.ac.
 
 ** Update NEWS, commit and tag.
-See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release.
+See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release.  For a while, we used
+beta names such as "2.6_rc1".  Now that we use gnulib in the release
+procedure, we must use "2.5.90", which has the additional benefit of
+being properly sorted in "git tag -l".
 
 ** make alpha, beta, or stable
 See README-release.
@@ -272,7 +275,7 @@ where F125BDF3 should be replaced with your key ID.
 *** Using gnupload
 You need "ncftp".
 
-At the end "make stable" (or alpha/beta) will display the prodecure to
+At the end "make stable" (or alpha/beta) will display the procedure to
 run.  Just copy and paste it in your shell.
 
 *** By hand