From f9fec2233d999cdceda814d67b129094718bb513 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SomberNight <somber.night@protonmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:55:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] document release process

---
 .gitignore               |  1 +
 docs/release_process.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/release_process.txt

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c0894bf19..cceb134da 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ docs/_build
 /build
 /dist
 /electrumx.egg-info
+/e_x.egg-info
 .vscode/
 .mypy_cache/
 .idea/
diff --git a/docs/release_process.txt b/docs/release_process.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..792d830d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release_process.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+// 1. Add changelog
+
+// 2. Update version number, in:
+// - docs/conf.py
+// - electrumx/__init__.py
+// - setup.py
+
+// 3. Tag
+$ git tag -s VERSION -m "VERSION"
+
+// 4. Build dists
+$ python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+
+// 5. Upload to PyPI
+// python3 -m twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*
+$ python3 -m twine upload dist/*
+
+// You will be prompted for a username and password. For the username, use __token__.
+// For the password, use API token from https://pypi.org/manage/account/ , including the pypi- prefix.