From c61b3e5407b59bced3c0b38342cc8acab29dc551 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthieu Vachon <matthieu.vachon@dfuse.io>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 09:52:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added release instructions

---
 .gitignore      |  3 ++-
 .goreleaser.yml | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 README.md       | 10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .goreleaser.yml

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 06bc364a..444f1eb1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 .envrc
 .idea
 .DS_Store
-.vscode
\ No newline at end of file
+.vscode
+/dist
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.goreleaser.yml b/.goreleaser.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..39e971aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.goreleaser.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+project_name: eos-go
+
+env_files:
+  github_token: ~/.config/goreleaser/github_token
+
+release:
+  github:
+    owner: eoscanada
+    name: eos-go
+  draft: true
+  name_template: '{{.Tag}}'
+  extra_files:
+    - glob: ./release/**/*
+
+changelog:
+  sort: asc
+  filters:
+    exclude:
+    - '^docs:'
+    - '^test:'
+
+builds:
+- skip: true
+
+archives:
+- files:
+  - LICENSE
+  - README.md
+
+snapshot:
+  name_template: "{{ .Tag }}-next"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5e8a83d4..212c26bf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -108,6 +108,16 @@ HTTP communication and `peering.eosn.io` for P2P communication.
 They can respectively be overridden by specifying environment variable
 `EOS_GO_API_URL` and `EOS_GO_P2P_ENDPOINT` respectively.
 
+### Release
+
+We are using [Goreleaser](https://goreleaser.com/) to perform releases. Install the `goreleaser` binary ([instructions](https://goreleaser.com/install/))
+and follow these steps:
+
+- Dry run release process first with `goreleaser release --skip-publish --skip-validate --rm-dist`
+- Publish **draft** release with `goreleaser release --rm-dist`
+- Open GitHub's release and check that the release messages are all good
+- Once everything is good, publish release
+
 ### Contributing
 
 Any contributions are welcome, use your standard GitHub-fu to pitch in and improve.