diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index acc2ae2760..e9fdecd6a2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-02-06  Tim-Philipp Müller  <tim at centricular dot net>
+
+	* docs/README:
+	  Tell folks what to do if the plugin-foobar.xml file
+	  hasn't been generated for a newly-added plugin.
+
 2006-02-05  Julien MOUTTE  <julien@moutte.net>
 
 	* libs/gst/base/gstcollectpads.c: (gst_collect_pads_finalize),
diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README
index 8a0dc3866a..04c2528274 100644
--- a/docs/README
+++ b/docs/README
@@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ in the various plugin packages.
     this to only get stuff from the source.
 
 - to add a plugin to be documented:
-  - make sure inspect/ has generated a .xml file for it
+  - make sure inspect/ has generated a .xml file for it. If it has not, make
+    sure you have pygst installed and run 'make update-inspect'.
   - add it to CVS
   - add an include in -docs.sgml in the Plugins list for that plugin