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+# Statping-ng maintainer documentation
+This document will briefly outline our workflows and give instructions on some common tasks.
+
+Feel free to expand this; at the moment it's pretty empty here.
+
+
+## GitHub actions
+Binaries and docker images get built automatically by GitHub actions.
+If the builds succeed, tests are run to ensure nothing is completely broken.
+Build artifacts can be downloaded from the actions tab on GitHub.
+
+This happens on every push to this repo and on every pull request update.
+
+
+## Releases
+We used to have a model of "stable" and "unstable" releases, which would get triggered by pushing to a respective release branch.
+The new system tries to address some of the issues with the old system and simplifies the workflow definitions.
+
+Incoming pull requests are merged into the `main` (default) branch.
+Once you feel like we have enough new changes to justify a release, a tag can be created.
+This is **not** a GitHub release and sadly can't be done from github.com directly.
+Either
+* create a stable release ready for general usage as `v{major}.{minor}.{patch}`, e.g. `v1.2.3`
+* or create a beta release intended for testing as `v{major}.{minor}.{patch}-{suffix}`, e.g. `v1.2.3-rc0`
+  * personal note: I don't know what a good format for suffixes is. I'm not even sure if we _need_ beta releases long term. We'll see; I'm open to suggestions
+
+To create a tag from your local workspace, run
+```bash
+git checkout main
+git pull
+git tag v1.2.3
+git push origin v1.2.3
+```
+You can also create tags on different branches (e.g. for backports).
+Remember to check out the revision you want to tag _before_ tagging.
+Do not move existing (pushed) tags!
+
+When a new tag is pushed, the same build+test actions described above run, but additionally the built docker images are pushed and a draft release on GitHub is created.
+All artifacts will get attached to that release.
+
+The release will be in draft mode to allow last minute changes if necessary.
+Untick the draft checkbox if everything looks alright.