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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ to automate the automation of releases.
 
 ## Installation
 
-To use this automation in your own repository, copy the [`example/.github`](./examples/.github)
+To use this automation in your own repository, copy the [`examples/.github`](./examples/.github)
 workflows into your own project:
 
 ```sh
@@ -18,19 +18,22 @@ git add .github
 git commit -m "Added release automation"
 ```
 
+To get started you need to create a branch for the next release. e.g. if your next milestone will be
+`3.2.0` a `3.2.x` branch is required.
+
 Then add following [secrets](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/configuring-and-managing-workflows/creating-and-storing-encrypted-secrets)
 to your project or organization:
 
- * `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME` - full name of the author of your releases: can be the name of a bot account.
- * `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL` - email address of the author of your releases: can be an email address of a bot account.
- * `SIGNING_SECRET_KEY` - a **password-less** private GPG key in ASCII format, to be used for signing your releases:
-   please use a dedicated GPG subkey for this purpose. Unsigned releases are not supported, and won't be supported.
- * `ORGANIZATION_ADMIN_TOKEN` - if you use the file from [`examples/.github/workflows/release-on-milestone-closed.yml`](examples/.github/workflows/release-on-milestone-closed.yml),
-   then you have to provide a `ORGANIZATION_ADMIN_TOKEN`, which is a github token with administrative rights over
-   your organization (issued by a user that has administrative rights over your project).
-   This is required for the `laminas:automatic-releases:switch-default-branch-to-next-minor`
-   command, because [changing default branch of a repository currently requires administrative token rights](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#update-a-repository).
-   You can generate a token from your [personal access tokens page](https://github.com/settings/tokens/new).
+- `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME` - full name of the author of your releases: can be the name of a bot account.
+- `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL` - email address of the author of your releases: can be an email address of a bot account.
+- `SIGNING_SECRET_KEY` - a **password-less** private GPG key in ASCII format, to be used for signing your releases:
+  please use a dedicated GPG subkey for this purpose. Unsigned releases are not supported, and won't be supported.
+- `ORGANIZATION_ADMIN_TOKEN` - if you use the file from [`examples/.github/workflows/release-on-milestone-closed.yml`](examples/.github/workflows/release-on-milestone-closed.yml),
+  then you have to provide a `ORGANIZATION_ADMIN_TOKEN`, which is a github token with administrative rights over
+  your organization (issued by a user that has administrative rights over your project).
+  This is required for the `laminas:automatic-releases:switch-default-branch-to-next-minor`
+  command, because [changing default branch of a repository currently requires administrative token rights](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#update-a-repository).
+  You can generate a token from your [personal access tokens page](https://github.com/settings/tokens/new).
 
 ## Usage
 
@@ -38,17 +41,15 @@ Assuming your project has Github Actions enabled, each time you [**close**](http
 a [**milestone**](https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/creating-and-editing-milestones-for-issues-and-pull-requests),
 this action will perform all following steps (or stop with an error):
 
- 1. determine if all issues and pull requests associated with this milestone are closed
- 2. determine if the milestone is named with the SemVer `x.y.z` format
- 3. create a changelog by looking at the milestone description and associated issues and pull requests
- 4. select a branch for the release:
-     * if a branch matching `x.y.z` exists, it will be selected
-     * otherwise, `master` will be used
- 5. create a tag named `x.y.z` on the selected branch, with the generated changelog
- 6. publish a release named `x.y.z`, with the generated tag and changelog
- 7. create (if applicable), a pull request from the selected branch to the next release branch
- 8. create (if necessary) a "next minor" release branch `x.y+1.z`
- 9. switch default repository branch to newest release branch
+1.  determine if all issues and pull requests associated with this milestone are closed
+2.  determine if the milestone is named with the SemVer `x.y.z` format
+3.  create a changelog by looking at the milestone description and associated issues and pull requests
+4.  select branch `x.y.z` for the release (e.g. `1.1.x` for a `1.1.0` release)
+5.  create a tag named `x.y.z` on the selected branch, with the generated changelog
+6.  publish a release named `x.y.z`, with the generated tag and changelog
+7.  create (if applicable), a pull request from the selected branch to the next release branch
+8.  create (if necessary) a "next minor" release branch `x.y+1.z`
+9.  switch default repository branch to newest release branch
 
 Please read the [`feature/`](./feature) specification for more detailed scenarios on how the tool is supposed
 to operate.