From dfaecb8779c83079d60dbd8bb84382e45bb69f08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:30:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add the release checklist.

---
 utils/release-checklist | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 utils/release-checklist

diff --git a/utils/release-checklist b/utils/release-checklist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8ea08bdee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/release-checklist
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Release checklist
+=================
+
+* Check hg status
+* Make check
+* Update version info in sphinx/__init__.py
+* Update release date in CHANGES
+* hg commit
+* make clean
+* python setup.py release bdist_egg sdist upload
+* Check PyPI release page for obvious errors
+* hg tag
+* Merge default into stable if final major release
+* Update homepage (release info), regenerate docs (+printable!)
+* Add new version/milestone to tracker categories
+* Write announcement and send to mailing list/python-announce
+* Update version info, add new CHANGES entry for next version
+* hg commit
+* hg push