Document automated release process

Authored-by: Owen Nelson <[email protected]>

contributing.md

@@ -8,29 +8,33 @@ If you are not sure how to begin contributing to Talisman, have a look at the is
 
 ## Developing locally
 
-To contribute to Talisman, you need a working golang development
-environment. Check [this link](https://golang.org/doc/install) to help
-you get started with that.
+To contribute to Talisman, you need a working golang development environment.
+Check [this link](https://golang.org/doc/install) to help you get started.
 
-Talisman now uses go modules (GO111MODULE=on) to manage dependencies
-
-Once you have go 1.11 installed and setup, clone the talisman repository. In your
-working copy, fetch the dependencies by having go mod fetch them for
-you.
+Once you have go installed and set up, clone the talisman repository. In your
+working copy, fetch the dependencies by having go mod fetch them for you:
 
 ```
-GO111MODULE=on go mod vendor
+go mod vendor
 ```
 
-To run tests `GO111MODULE=on go test -mod=vendor ./...`
+Run the tests:
+
+```
+go test ./...
+```
 
-To build Talisman, we can use [gox](https://github.com/mitchellh/gox):
+Build talisman:
 
 ```
-gox -osarch="darwin/amd64 linux/386 linux/amd64"
+go build -o dist/talisman -ldflags="-s -w" talisman/cmd
 ```
 
-Convenience scripts `./build` and `./clean` perform build and clean-up as mentioned above.
+To build for multiple platforms we use [GoReleaser](https://goreleaser.com/):
+
+```
+goreleaser build --snapshot --clean
+```
 
 ## Submitting a Pull Request
 
@@ -42,20 +46,20 @@ To send in a pull request
 4. Ensure that all the tests pass.
 5. Submit the pull request.
 
-## Updating Talisman Gihub Pages 
+## Updating Talisman GitHub Pages
 
 1. Checkout a new branch from gh-pages
 2. Navigate to the docs/ folder and update the files
-3. See instructions for checking locally [here](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/blob/gh-pages/README.md). 
+3. See instructions for checking locally [here](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/blob/gh-pages/README.md).
 4. Raise a pull request against the branch gh-pages
 
 ## Releasing
 
-* Follow the instructions at the end of 'Developing locally' to build the binaries* Bump the [version in install.sh](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/blob/d4b1b1d11137dbb173bf681a03f16183a9d82255/install.sh#L10) according to [semver](https://semver.org/) conventions
-* Update the [expected hashes in install.sh](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/blob/d4b1b1d11137dbb173bf681a03f16183a9d82255/install.sh#L16-L18) to match the new binaries you just created (`shasum -b -a256 ...`)
-* Make release commit and tag with the new version prefixed by `v` (like `git tag v0.3.0`)
-* Push your release commit and tag: `git push && git push --tags`
-* [Create a new release in github](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/releases/new), filling in the new commit tag you just created
-* Update the install script hosted on github pages: `git checkout gh-pages`, `git checkout master -- install.sh`, `git commit -m ...`
+1. Tag the commit to be released with the next version according to
+[semver](https://semver.org/) conventions
+2. Push the tag to trigger the GitHub Actions Release pipeline
+3. Approve the [drafted GitHub Release](https://github.com/thoughtworks/talisman/releases)
 
-The latest version will now be accessible to anyone who builds their own binaries, downloads binaries directly from github releases, or uses the install script from the website.
+The latest version will now be accessible to anyone who builds their own
+binaries, downloads binaries directly from GitHub Releases or homebrew, or uses
+the install script from the website.