From bee19aee241f69a8e0172d819364641ac0d5939c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jerry Cheung <jch@whatcodecraves.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:05:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] propose new release process

---
 README.rdoc    |  8 ++++++++
 script/package |  7 +++++++
 script/release | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 script/package
 create mode 100755 script/release

diff --git a/README.rdoc b/README.rdoc
index 969a717a..0a1ebdf5 100644
--- a/README.rdoc
+++ b/README.rdoc
@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ sources.
 
 Simply require either 'net-ldap' or 'net/ldap'.
 
+== Release
+
+This section is for gem maintainers to cut a new version of the gem.
+
+* Update lib/html/pipeline/version.rb to next version number X.X.X following {semver}(http://semver.org/).
+* Update CHANGELOG.md. Get latest changes with `git log --oneline vLAST_RELEASE..HEAD | grep Merge`
+* On the master branch, run `script/release`
+
 :include: Contributors.rdoc
 
 :include: License.rdoc
diff --git a/script/package b/script/package
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..5851400e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/script/package
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Usage: script/package
+# Updates the gemspec and builds a new gem in the pkg directory.
+
+mkdir -p pkg
+gem build *.gemspec
+mv *.gem pkg
diff --git a/script/release b/script/release
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..6dcd8cb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/script/release
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Usage: script/release
+# Build the package, tag a commit, push it to origin, and then release the
+# package publicly.
+
+set -e
+
+version="$(script/package | grep Version: | awk '{print $2}')"
+[ -n "$version" ] || exit 1
+
+echo $version
+git commit --allow-empty -a -m "Release $version"
+git tag "v$version"
+git push origin
+git push origin "v$version"
+gem push pkg/*-${version}.gem

From e37ce91b6e4422bce3fd1092119ebe42a3c986ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jerry Cheung <jch@whatcodecraves.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:54:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Release 0.9.0