From dd2102d973065894f6db84c70fa807489992444e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leonora Tindall <nora@nora.codes>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 12:47:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Formalize release process

---
 CHANGELOG.md    |  4 ++--
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 35f90bc..63015f5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## Unreleased - 0.2.0
+## Unreleased - v0.2.0
 
 ### Added
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Security
 
-## 0.1.0
+## v0.1.0
 ### Added
 
 - GNU GPL v3 license
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index f90d0f1..392420a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -17,3 +17,13 @@ CHANGELOG.md.
 
 All method documentation is written in the present tense. For example, "Creates a new..."
 rather than "Create a new...".
+
+## Cutting a Release
+
+When cutting a release:
+
+- In CHANGELOG, rename the Unreleased section and add a new Unreleased section above it
+- Make a commit with only that change
+- Tag that commit like "v1.0.0"
+- Push main and the tag
+- `cargo publish`