diff --git a/doc/hacking.rst b/doc/hacking.rst
index b78b5f9..8e336b6 100644
--- a/doc/hacking.rst
+++ b/doc/hacking.rst
@@ -142,8 +142,9 @@ Release tasks
    #. Marks all the Fix Committed bugs as Fix Released
    #. Creates a new milestone
 #. Merge the release branch testtools-X.Y.Z into trunk. Before the commit,
-   add a NEXT heading to the top of NEWS and bump the version in __init__.py.
-   Push trunk to Launchpad
+   add a NEXT heading to the top of NEWS and bump the version in __init__.py
+   e.g. to ``(X, Y, Z+1, 'dev', 0)``.
+#. Push trunk to Launchpad
 #. If a new series has been created (e.g. 0.10.0), make the series on Launchpad.
 
 .. _PEP 8: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/