4. Open the NEWS.xml file in your text/XML editor, select the
sect1 section and all its child content, and paste that into
- the RELEASE-NOTES.xml file, as the first sect1 child of the
- RELEASE-NOTES.xml file's root article element.
-
-5. In the RELEASE-NOTES.xml file, add a variablelist with a
- varlistentry instance for each major significant change made in
- this release that merits special mention in the release notes;
- generally, that means every major enhancement.
-
-6. In the RELEASE-NOTES.xml, in the content you have just pasted
- in, go through each sect2 section and manually remove any
- listitem instances that have content which doesn't need to be
- included in the final release notes. In general, that means
- removing most bug fixes and "housekeeping" changes that do not
- need to be exposed to users, but changes for feature
- enhancements or changes to public APIs.
+ the RELEASE-NOTES.xml file, as the second sect1 child of the
+ RELEASE-NOTES.xml file's root article element (just after the
+ <sect1 condition="snapshot" id="current"> section).
+
+5. In the section you just pasted from the NEWS.xml file into the
+ RELEASE-NOTES.xml file, add a variablelist with a varlistentry
+ instance for each major significant change made in this release
+ that merits special mention in the release notes; generally,
+ that means every major enhancement.
+
+6. In the section you just pasted from the NEWS.xml file into the
+ RELEASE-NOTES.xml file, go through each sect2 section and
+ manually remove any listitem instances that have content which
+ doesn't need to be included in the final release notes. In
+ general, that means removing most bug fixes and "housekeeping"
+ changes that do not need to be exposed to users, but changes
+ for feature enhancements or changes to public APIs.
7. After making all changes/additions to the RELEASE-NOTES.xml
file, check it back in with