Author: julianfoad Date: Mon Sep 30 20:35:19 2019 New Revision: 1867808 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1867808&view=rev Log: * publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html (creating-branch): Add writing the release notes.
Modified: subversion/site/publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html Modified: subversion/site/publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html?rev=1867808&r1=1867807&r2=1867808&view=diff ============================================================================== --- subversion/site/publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html (original) +++ subversion/site/publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html Mon Sep 30 20:35:19 2019 @@ -1437,7 +1437,14 @@ A.B with the version you're preparing, e <h4>Automated</h4> <p>Run this in an empty-ish directory where it will make some temporary checkouts:</p> -<pre>release.py --verbose create-release-branch A.B.0</pre> +<pre> +release.py --verbose create-release-branch A.B.0 +</pre> +<p>Write a release notes template:</p> +<pre> +release.py --verbose write-release-notes A.B.0 > .../docs/release-notes/A.B.html +svn add .../docs/release-notes/A.B.html +</pre> <div class="notice">Some steps are not automated—highlighted below.</div> <h4>Manual Steps</h4> @@ -1501,6 +1508,9 @@ A.B with the version you're preparing, e <div class="notice">The following steps are not automated:</div> <ul> +<li><p>Write a new release-notes document, + <tt>site/publish/docs/release-notes/A.B.html</tt></p></li> + <li> <p>Ask someone with appropriate access to add the A.B.x branch to the <a href="#backport-merge-bot">backport merge bot</a>.</p>