diff --git a/extras/make_release.sh b/extras/build_release.sh
similarity index 57%
rename from extras/make_release.sh
rename to extras/build_release.sh
index 08730006c..57873b12e 100755
--- a/extras/make_release.sh
+++ b/extras/build_release.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# Script to make a Scrapy release. To be run from root dir in Scrapy
+# Script to build a Scrapy release. To be run from root dir in Scrapy
 # distribution.
 
 # clean repo
@@ -9,14 +9,6 @@ hg purge --all
 version=$(python -c "import scrapy; print scrapy.__version__")
 python setup.py sdist
 # FIXME: bdist_wininst doesn't work on Unix (it doesn't include the data_files)
+# To build the win32 release you need to use Windows for now.
 #python setup.py bdist_wininst -t "Scrapy $version" -p "win32"
 
-# hash and sign
-cd dist
-md5sum scrapy-$version* > MD5SUMS
-sha1sum scrapy-$version* > SHA1SUMS
-gpg -ba MD5SUMS
-gpg -ba SHA1SUMS
-
-# list files created
-ls -l
diff --git a/extras/sign_release.sh b/extras/sign_release.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..974ae7b37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extras/sign_release.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Script to sign a Scrapy release. To be run from root dir in Scrapy
+# distribution.
+
+cd dist
+md5sum scrapy-$version* > MD5SUMS
+sha1sum scrapy-$version* > SHA1SUMS
+gpg -ba MD5SUMS
+gpg -ba SHA1SUMS
+
+# list files created
+ls -l