From 57c57f04fe719c6c8376f73eef2b166db2d50f1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lehman Garrison <lgarrison@flatironinstitute.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:47:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ci: update release procedure

---
 .github/workflows/tests.yml |  5 -----
 RELEASING.md                | 12 ++++++++++++
 RELEASING.rst               |  8 --------
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 RELEASING.md
 delete mode 100644 RELEASING.rst

diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index d5d38066..fa6bfe08 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -23,11 +23,6 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-      - name: Dump GitHub context
-        env:
-          GITHUB_CONTEXT: ${{ toJson(github) }}
-        run: echo "$GITHUB_CONTEXT"
-
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
diff --git a/RELEASING.md b/RELEASING.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a5e08971
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RELEASING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# Release Procedure
+
+- Update `CHANGES.rst` (check `git diff vOLD`)
+- Check that GitHub CI is passing
+- Check that docs are building
+- Make a new git tag:
+```console
+$ git tag -a vX.Y.Z -m 'Version X.Y.Z'
+$ git push origin vX.Y.Z
+```
+- Check that GitHub Actions built, tested, and uploaded the release to PyPI
+- Make a GitHub release of tag vX.Y.Z: https://github.com/abacusorg/abacusutils/releases
diff --git a/RELEASING.rst b/RELEASING.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c23ca5b..00000000
--- a/RELEASING.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-Release Procedure
-=================
-
-- Update ``CHANGES.rst`` (check ``git diff vOLD``)
-- Check that GitHub CI is passing
-- Check that docs are building
-- Make a new release/git tag on GitHub: https://github.com/abacusorg/abacusutils/releases
-- Check that GitHub Actions pushed a PyPI release from the GitHub release