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Mention that the final release tag must be of the form vX.Y.Z
Otherwise the Ruby script updating the release statistics would fail.
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docs/contributing/how-to-release.md

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git tag -s -m 'Tag X.Y.Z release' vX.Y.Z
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Don't overwrite existing tags. For non-final releases use e.g. `X.Y.Z-rc1`
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instead of `X.Y.Z`.
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Don't overwrite existing tags. For non-final releases use e.g. `X.Y.Z-rc1`
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instead of `X.Y.Z`, but make sure to use just `vX.Y.Z` tag for the release
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when publishing it as the web site update script depends on being able to
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find the release with this tag.
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## Creating Release On GitHub
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