Re: Reorder a couple of steps in README-release

[Jim Meyering]

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> The attached patch simply moves a paragraph so that the step of
> pushing the final (NEWS-updating) commits to git happens before
> uploading any release files.

Hi Reuben,

Thanks for the suggestion, but I deliberately chose to
upload the tarball(s) before pushing the tag and commits.
Why?  Because the latter step is the only one that is
decisive, and very unlikely to be reverted.  If I upload
something I later (in say, the following 10-20 minutes
as I wait for it to appear on the site) want to retract
or replace, I can do that.  However, once I push a commit
I feel I cannot reasonably revert that.

>>From a53f102b0d7cc8dd8db6a632321ba8b623e56f58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Reuben Thomas <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:56:10 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] README-release: reorder some steps
>
> * top/README-release: push NEWS changes before uploading release

Why would you like to reverse them?