1. make a commit where we set the value for all the 'UNRELEASED' @since lines
2. configure.ac:
   1. bump micro, set nano to 0
   2. update the folks_lt_(current|age|revision)
   3. bump the folks_released field to 1
3. make distcheck
4. install folks from the generated tarball and do a bit of smoke-testing
   1. build both with and without Vala, gobject-introspection, valadoc
5. make sure Empathy compiles against it
6. add a tag

   1. git tag -a FOLKS_<VERSION> <commit>

7. upload tarball to master.gnome.org
8. run ftpadmin install TARBALL
9. write release email
10. push to origin
    1. git push origin master

    2. git push origin FOLKS_<VERSION>

11. send release email to telepathy-list, gnome-announce-list, and folks-list
12. push docs

    1. if this is the first 0.<even>.0 release, move the old unversioned dir out of the way like "folks -> folks-0.6" first

    2. (from $top_srcdir) make -C docs maintainer-upload-release

after release

1. bump the version number to a 1 for nano and revert the "released" bit to 0 in configure.ac
2. add a section for the next release to the top of NEWS

3. if this is a 0.<even>.0 release, create new branch for 0.<even - 2>.x

4. create new bugzilla milestones

5. for any bugs with the folks-<release> milestone that are still open, use Bugzilla's multiple-bug-change page to push them to the next release's milestone. Include a comment like "didn't make this release; punting to the next milestone" so it's easy to select the bug mail for this change.

6. update the gnome-3.0 deps modulesets in jhbuild