From d64d93c82812c725560bf312a5a41d46657b3d15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cassie Tarakajian <ctarakajian@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:43:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [#1421] Correct order of release steps

---
 developer_docs/release.md | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/developer_docs/release.md b/developer_docs/release.md
index 302c8019..aa06293a 100644
--- a/developer_docs/release.md
+++ b/developer_docs/release.md
@@ -13,19 +13,19 @@ This project release guide is based on
 1. `$ git checkout develop`
 2. `$ git checkout -b release-<newversion>`
 3. Do all of the release branch testing necessary. This could be as simple as running `npm test:ci`, or it could take user testing over a few days. 
-4. `$ git checkout release`
-5. `$ git merge --no-ff release-<newversion>`
-6. `$ npm version <newversion>` (see [npm-version](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/version) for valid values of <newversion>).
+4. `$ npm version <newversion>` (see [npm-version](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/version) for valid values of <newversion>).
+5. `$ git checkout release`
+6. `$ git merge --no-ff release-<newversion>`
 7. `$ git push && git push --tags`
 8. `$ git checkout develop`
-9. `$ git merge --no-ff release-<newversion>`
-10. Create a release on GitHub. You can do this in one of two ways:
+9.  Create a release on GitHub. Make sure that you release from the `release` branch! You can do this in one of two ways:
     1.  (Preferred) Use the [`hub` command line tool](https://hub.github.com/). You can automate adding all commit messages since the last release with the following command:
         ```sh
         $ hub release create -d -m "<newversion>" -m "$(git log `git describe --tags --abbrev=0 HEAD^`..HEAD --oneline)" <newversion>`
         ```
         Note that this creates a draft release, which you can then edit on GitHub. This allows you to create release notes from the list of commit messages, but then edit these notes as you wish.
     2.  [Draft a new release on Github](https://github.com/processing/p5.js-web-editor/releases/new).
+10. `$ git merge --no-ff release-<newversion>`
 
 Travis CI will automatically deploy the release to production, as well as push a production tagged Docker image to DockerHub.