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-Checklist for making a release:
+## Checklist for making a release:
 
+### Requirements
+ - [ ] Lauchpad (Ubuntu One) account
+ - [ ] gnupg key (has to be version 1, gpg2 won't work) for `your-name@ethereum.org` created and uploaded
+ - [ ] Readthedocs account, access to the Solidity project
+ - [ ] Write access to https://github.com/ethereum/homebrew-ethereum
+
+### Pre-release
  - [ ] Ensure that a Github project exists for the release.
  - [ ] Check that all issues and pull requests from the Github project to be released are merged to ``develop``.
- - [ ] Create a commit in ``develop`` that updates the ``Changelog`` to include a release date (run ``./scripts/tests.sh`` to update the bug list). Sort the changelog entries alphabetically and correct any errors you notice.
+
+### Changelog
+ - [ ] Sort the changelog entries alphabetically and correct any errors you notice.
+ - [ ] Create a commit on a new branch that updates the ``Changelog`` to include a release date.
+ - [ ] Run ``./scripts/tests.sh`` to update the bug list.
  - [ ] Create a pull request and wait for the tests, merge it.
+
+### Create the Release
+ - [ ] Create Github release page: https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/releases/new
+ - [ ] On the release page, select the ``release`` branch as new target and set tag to the new version (e.g. `v0.5.4`) (make sure you only `SAVE DRAFT` instead of `PUBLISH RELEASE` before the actual release)
  - [ ] Thank voluntary contributors in the Github release page (use ``git shortlog -s -n -e origin/release..origin/develop``).
  - [ ] Create a pull request from ``develop`` to ``release``, wait for the tests, then merge it.
  - [ ] Make a final check that there are no platform-dependency issues in the ``solidity-test-bytecode`` repository.
  - [ ] Wait for the tests for the commit on ``release``, create a release in Github, creating the tag.
- - [ ] Wait for the CI runs on the tag itself (they should push artifacts onto the Github release page).
- - [ ] Run ``scripts/create_source_tarball.sh`` while being on the tag to create the source tarball.
- - [ ] Upload the source tarball (in the upload directory) to the release page.
+ - [ ] Wait for the CI runs on the tag itself (travis and appveyor should push artifacts onto the Github release page).
+ - [ ] Run ``scripts/create_source_tarball.sh`` while being on the tag to create the source tarball. Make sure to create ``prerelease.txt`` before: (``echo -n > prerelease.txt``). This will create the tarball in a directory called ``upload``.
+ - [ ] Take the tarball from the upload directory (its name should be ``solidity_x.x.x.tar.gz``, otherwise ``prerelease.txt`` was missing in the step before) and upload the source tarball to the release page.
+ - [ ] Click the `PUBLISH RELEASE` button on the release page.
+
+### PPA
+ - [ ] Change ``scripts/release_ppa.sh`` to match your key's email and key id.
  - [ ] Run ``scripts/release_ppa.sh release`` to create the PPA release (you need the relevant openssl key).
  - [ ] Wait for the ``~ethereum/ubuntu/ethereum-static`` PPA build to be finished and published for *all platforms*. SERIOUSLY: DO NOT PROCEED EARLIER!!! *After* the static builds are *published*, copy the static package to the ``~ethereum/ubuntu/ethereum`` PPA for the destination series ``Trusty`` and ``Xenial`` while selecting ``Copy existing binaries``.
- - [ ] Check that the Docker release was pushed to Docker Hub (this still seems to have problems, run ``./scripts/docker_deploy_manual.sh release``).
- - [ ] Update the homebrew realease in https://github.com/ethereum/homebrew-ethereum/blob/master/solidity.rb (version and hash)
+ - [ ] Check that the Docker release was pushed to Docker Hub (this still seems to have problems, run ``./scripts/docker_deploy_manual.sh v0.x.x``).
+
+### Homebrew
+ - [ ] Update the version and the hash (``sha256sum solidity_x.x.x.tar.gz``) in https://github.com/ethereum/homebrew-ethereum/blob/master/solidity.rb
+
+### Documentation
  - [ ] Update the default version on readthedocs.
- - [ ] Make a release of ``solc-js``: Increment the version number, create a pull request for that, merge it after tests succeeded.
+
+### Release solc-js
+ - [ ] Increment the version number, create a pull request for that, merge it after tests succeeded.
  - [ ] Run ``npm publish`` in the updated ``solc-js`` repository.
  - [ ] Create a commit to increase the version number on ``develop`` in ``CMakeLists.txt`` and add a new skeleton changelog entry.
  - [ ] Merge ``release`` back into ``develop``.
+
+### Post-release
  - [ ] Announce on Twitter and Reddit.
  - [ ] Lean back, wait for bug reports and repeat from step 1 :)