diff --git a/doc/developer/frr-release-procedure.rst b/doc/developer/frr-release-procedure.rst
index 6a7f9c4ca9..4ef0ca8416 100644
--- a/doc/developer/frr-release-procedure.rst
+++ b/doc/developer/frr-release-procedure.rst
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Stage 3 - Publish
 
    .. code-block:: console
 
-      cp <old-version>.md <version>.md
+      cp content/release/<old-version>.md content/release/<new-version>.md
 
    Paste the GitHub release announcement text into this document, and **remove
    line breaks**. In other words, this::
@@ -220,10 +220,17 @@ Stage 3 - Publish
    This is very important otherwise the announcement will be unreadable on the
    website.
 
-   Make sure to add a link to the GitHub releases page at the top.
+   To get the number of commiters and commits, here is a couple of handy commands:
 
-   Once finished, manually add a new entry into ``index.html`` to link to this
-   new announcement. Look at past commits to see how to do this.
+   .. code-block:: console
+
+      # The number of commits
+      % git log --oneline --no-merges base_8.2...base_8.1 | wc -l
+
+      # The number of commiters
+      % git shortlog --summary --no-merges base_8.2...base_8.1 | wc -l
+
+   Make sure to add a link to the GitHub releases page at the top.
 
 #. Deploy the updated ``frr-www`` on the frrouting.org web server and verify
    that the announcement text is visible.