Merge pull request #13664 from electron/tweak-release-docs

docs: update release docs from Fri 13 release session
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@ -19,8 +19,12 @@ If you don't have an account, ask a team member to add you.
* `CIRCLE_TOKEN`:
Create a token from "Personal API Tokens" at https://circleci.com/account/api
* `VSTS_TOKEN`:
Create a Personal Access Token at https://github.visualstudio.com/_usersSettings/tokens
Create a Personal Access Token at https://github.visualstudio.com/_usersSettings/tokens or https://github.visualstudio.com/_details/security/tokens
with the scope of `Build (read and execute)`.
* `ELECTRON_S3_BUCKET`:
* `ELECTRON_S3_ACCESS_KEY`:
* `ELECTRON_S3_SECRET_KEY`:
If you don't have these, ask a team member to help you.
## Determine which branch to release from
@ -65,7 +69,7 @@ npm run prepare-release -- minor
```
### Patch version change
```sh
npm run prepare-release -- patch
npm run prepare-release -- patch --stable
```
### Beta version change
```sh
@ -204,6 +208,10 @@ release notes.
```sh
$ npm run release -- --validateRelease
```
Note, if you need to run `--validateRelease` more than once to check the assets,
run it as above the first time, then `node ./script/release.js --validateRelease`
for subsequent calls so that you don't have to rebuild each time you want to
check the assets.
## Publish the release
@ -247,6 +255,21 @@ electron
$ npm run publish-to-npm
```
After publishing, you can check the `latest` release:
```sh
$ npm dist-tag ls electron
```
If for some reason `npm run publish-to-npm` fails,
you can tag the release manually:
```sh
$ npm dist-tag add electron@<version> <tag>
```
e.g.:
```sh
$ npm dist-tag add electron@2.0.0 latest
```
[the releases page]: https://github.com/electron/electron/releases
[this bump commit]: https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/78ec1b8f89b3886b856377a1756a51617bc33f5a
[versioning]: /docs/tutorial/electron-versioning.md
@ -276,7 +299,7 @@ node script/ci-release-build.js --ci=AppVeyor --ghRelease TARGET_BRANCH
```
Additionally you can pass a job name to the script to run an individual job, eg:
````sh
```sh
node script/ci-release-build.js --ci=AppVeyor --ghRelease --job=electron-x64 TARGET_BRANCH
```