From 393ad877adcc639486907c2a88a15f2f5037c444 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morgan <1342360+anoadragon453@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 14:13:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add note about warning the world before making a release
 (#155)

Otherwise we end up making many releases without anybody knowing.
---
 RELEASING.md        | 5 +++++
 changelog.d/155.doc | 1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/155.doc

diff --git a/RELEASING.md b/RELEASING.md
index 66a5db6d..53a8f999 100644
--- a/RELEASING.md
+++ b/RELEASING.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+0. Consider whether this release will affect any customers, including those on
+EMS, and warn them beforehand - in case they need to upgrade quickly.
+
 1. Set a variable to the version number for convenience:
    ```sh
    ver=x.y.z
@@ -28,3 +31,5 @@
    ```sh
    xdg-open https://github.com/matrix-org/sygnal/releases/edit/v$ver
    ```
+1. Notify #sygnal:matrix.org, #synapse-dev:matrix.org and EMS that a new
+   release has been published.
diff --git a/changelog.d/155.doc b/changelog.d/155.doc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7b5867fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/155.doc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add a note to the releasing doc asking people to inform EMS and customers during the release process.