From e91344d404ceb0adf1e38172a8fe34d4d17eea80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Limoncelli <tlimoncelli@stackoverflow.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:41:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add a CHANGELOG.md

---
 CHANGELOG.md           |  3 +++
 RELEASE_ENGINEERING.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 CHANGELOG.md

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9610a6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Release v1.20170127
+
+* Starting CHANGELOG.
diff --git a/RELEASE_ENGINEERING.md b/RELEASE_ENGINEERING.md
index 163ae04..6310d15 100644
--- a/RELEASE_ENGINEERING.md
+++ b/RELEASE_ENGINEERING.md
@@ -27,7 +27,23 @@ Stable Releases
 
 Marking the software to be "stable":
 
-Step 1. Tag it.
+Step 1.  Update CHANGELOG.md
+
+Use "git log" to see what has changed and update CHANGELOG.md.
+
+For a new release, add:
+
+```
+   echo Release v1.$(date +%Y%m%d)
+```
+
+Commit with:
+
+```
+git commit -m'Update CHANGELOG.md' CHANGELOG.md
+```
+
+Step 2. Tag it.
 
 ```
 git pull
@@ -37,7 +53,7 @@ git tag stable
 git push origin tag stable
 ```
 
-Step 2. Mark your calendar 1 week from today to check to see if this should be promoted to production.
+Step 3. Mark your calendar 1 week from today to check to see if this should be promoted to production.
 
 Production Releases
 ===================