From 9a1a00b3c09d1c076a53263af588cdb26f987677 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristian Evers <kristianevers@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 10:40:44 +0200
Subject: Add a few notes to HOWTORELEASE

---
 HOWTO-RELEASE | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/HOWTO-RELEASE b/HOWTO-RELEASE
index a9a17e69..67e80622 100644
--- a/HOWTO-RELEASE
+++ b/HOWTO-RELEASE
@@ -176,10 +176,18 @@ See step 1.6 above. Do not rename the archives with RC postfixes.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
   - Add the release notes from `NEWS` to `docs/source/news.rst`
+
+    These vim substitutions are helpfull when converting NEWS to rst:
+
+    :!(\#(\d\{4}\))!(`\#\1 <https://github.com/OSGeo/issues/\1>`_)!
+    :s/^o/*/
+
   - Update download links in `docs/source/download.rst`
   - Update `$TRAVIS_BRANCH` in `travis\after_success.sh` to new maintenance
     branch.
 
+
+
 *Commit the changes to master and cherry-pick into maintenance branch.*
 
 When pushed upstream the website will be update to the current version.
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