How to make a patchwork release

You will need

• To be a member of the ssbc/patchwork repository with push capabilities to master
• An npmjs.com account that's part of the ssbc, to publish the npm package

Steps

1. Check out master and make sure you're 100% up-to-date with origin. git fetch origin && git reset --hard origin/master makes this pretty simple.

2. npm version $whatever, usually this will be npm version patch or npm version minor but when doing a prerelease you have to do npm version prerelease --preid beta. This is fine to do in master IMO because it isn't changing any code.

3. git push --tags origin master should push your commit and the tag, which should set off Travis which will push a draft release. Look at the releases and you should see the draft.

4. Wait for all of the builds to finish, it takes ~10 minutes for macOS and Linux but ~25 minutes for Windows. Then you'll edit the draft, change the title from "1.0.0" to "Patchwork v1.0.0" and set a body with the output of npm run --silent release-notes.

5. If it's an alpha or beta make sure to tick the "this is a prerelease box" at the bottom, hit "preview" to make sure you haven't borked your Markdown, and then hit "publish" release.

6. Write up an announcement to publish on SSB. :)