Releasing 1) create an anotated tag on the format YYYY.MM.X, where YYYY is the year, MM is the month and X is a number starting from 1. E.g.: $ git tag -a 2011.04.1 2) create a tarball $ make release 3) copy the tarball to gerolde $ scp initscripts-YYYY.MM.X.tar.xz gerolde.archlinux.org:/srv/ftp/other/initscripts/ 4) check that the PKGBUILD in git is in sync with the PKGBUILD to be released 5) create packages for both arches and push to testing