diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6483fca7..40badb1d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -159,14 +159,14 @@ composer_dependencies: clean
 	find vendor/ -name ".git" -type d -exec rm -rf {} +
 
 ### generate a release tarball and include 3rd-party dependencies
-release_tar: composer_dependencies doc_html
+release_tar: composer_dependencies htmldoc
 	git archive --prefix=$(ARCHIVE_PREFIX) -o $(ARCHIVE_VERSION).tar HEAD
 	tar rvf $(ARCHIVE_VERSION).tar --transform "s|^vendor|$(ARCHIVE_PREFIX)vendor|" vendor/
 	tar rvf $(ARCHIVE_VERSION).tar --transform "s|^doc/html|$(ARCHIVE_PREFIX)doc/html|" doc/html/
 	gzip $(ARCHIVE_VERSION).tar
 
 ### generate a release zip and include 3rd-party dependencies
-release_zip: composer_dependencies doc_html
+release_zip: composer_dependencies htmldoc
 	git archive --prefix=$(ARCHIVE_PREFIX) -o $(ARCHIVE_VERSION).zip -9 HEAD
 	mkdir -p $(ARCHIVE_PREFIX)/{doc,vendor}
 	rsync -a doc/html/ $(ARCHIVE_PREFIX)doc/html/
@@ -195,17 +195,11 @@ doxygen: clean
 	@rm -rf doxygen
 	@( cat Doxyfile ; echo "PROJECT_NUMBER=`git describe`" ) | doxygen -
 
-### Convert local markdown documentation to HTML
-#
-# For all pages:
-#  - convert GitHub-flavoured relative links to standard Markdown
-#  - generate html documentation with mkdocs
-htmlpages:
+### generate HTML documentation from Markdown pages with MkDocs
+htmldoc:
 	python3 -m venv venv/
 	bash -c 'source venv/bin/activate; \
 	pip install mkdocs; \
 	mkdocs build'
 	find doc/html/ -type f -exec chmod a-x '{}' \;
 	rm -r venv
-
-doc_html: authors htmlpages
diff --git a/doc/md/Release-Shaarli.md b/doc/md/Release-Shaarli.md
index 974a7438..e22eabc9 100644
--- a/doc/md/Release-Shaarli.md
+++ b/doc/md/Release-Shaarli.md
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ TBA
 
 
 ## Increment the version code, update docs, create and push a signed tag
+### Update the list of Git contributors
+```bash
+$ make authors
+$ git commit -s -m "Update AUTHORS"
+```
+
 ### Create and merge a Pull Request
 This one is pretty straightforward ;-)