From ee118fb61603b9792232925c63dea6d5705a6dc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Spiers <stow@adamspiers.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 11:04:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] HOWTO-RELEASE: add link to official GNU maintainers guide

---
 doc/HOWTO-RELEASE | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/HOWTO-RELEASE b/doc/HOWTO-RELEASE
index d4988e3..c8d9059 100644
--- a/doc/HOWTO-RELEASE
+++ b/doc/HOWTO-RELEASE
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 How to make a new release of GNU Stow
 =====================================
 
+Prerequisite reading
+--------------------
+
+First read the official information for maintainers of GNU software:
+
+    https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/
+
+Release procedure
+-----------------
+
   - Ensure NEWS contains the latest changes.
 
   - Ensure configure.ac contains the new version number.