From c9da11c6b2c5449b762a4d8458fbbccc5f100b94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Norwin <noerw@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 16:48:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add announcement steps to release-howto (#18896)

* add announcements steps to release-howto

* Also add homebrew update
---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 5a9b9ce7fc..4216ee3a13 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -423,6 +423,11 @@ be reviewed by two maintainers and must pass the automatic tests.
 * And then push the tag as `git push origin v$vmaj.$vmin.$`. Drone CI will automatically create a release and upload all the compiled binary. (But currently it doesn't add the release notes automatically. Maybe we should fix that.)
 * If needed send a frontport PR for the changelog to branch `main` and update the version in `docs/config.yaml` to refer to the new version.
 * Send PR to [blog repository](https://gitea.com/gitea/blog) announcing the release.
+* Verify all release assets were correctly published through CI on dl.gitea.io and GitHub releases. Once ACKed:
+  * send a PR to the [homebrew repo](https://gitea.com/gitea/homebrew-gitea) analog to [this PR](https://gitea.com/gitea/homebrew-gitea/commit/1f9a3fe5eb75b64a96a5336665531abcbd0eef0c)
+  * bump the version of https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/version.json
+  * merge the blog post PR
+  * announce the release in discord `#announcements`
 
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