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+Maintainers Guide
+=================
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+This guide is for _maintainers_ who have commit access to the repository and can merge PR's and create release tags.
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+Release Process
+---------------
+
+The release process starts with drafting a new release in GitHub and results in a nuget package published to the public feed.
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+1. Update the `<Version>` tag in the [Farmer.fsproj](src/Farmer/Farmer.fsproj) file with the version number and commit it to master.
+2. Go to [releases](https://github.com/CompositionalIT/farmer/releases) and click "Draft a new Release".
+3. Under "Choose a tag", enter the version number for the new package to release to create a tag for the version when it is published. Creating this tag starts the Azure DevOps Pipeline.
+4. In "Release Title", name it for the version number as well. This makes it easier to correlate a particular release with the nuget package when viewing the list of releases.
+5. In "Describe this release", include the bullet points from the release notes for all the features added in this release. Viewing the "raw" [RELEASE_NOTES.md](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CompositionalIT/farmer/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md) makes it easier to copy these for the description.
+6. Click "Publish Release".
+7. Go to the Azure DevOps pipeline and wait for the approval stage. If everything looks good, approve to publish the package to nuget.