raulcd commented on code in PR #13308:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/13308#discussion_r891306435
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docs/source/developers/release.rst:
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@@ -87,12 +87,55 @@ These are the different steps that are required to create a
release candidate.
# Curate the release
# The end of the generated report shows the jira tickets with wrong
version number assigned.
archery release curate <version>
-
- # Checkout release branch
- # Use master for major releases
- git checkout -b release-4.0.0 master
- # Use maintenance branches like maint-4.0.x for patch releases
- git checkout -b release-4.0.1 maint-4.0.x
+
+
+Creating a Release Candidate
+============================
+
+These are the different steps that are required to create a release candidate.
+
+For the initial Release Candidate, we will create a maintenance branch from
master.
+Follow up Release Candidates will update the maintenance branch cherry-picking
+specific commits.
+
+We have implemented a Feature Freeze policy between Release Candidates.
+This means that, in general, we will only add fixes between Release Candidates.
+In rare cases, critical features can be added between release candidates, if
+there is community consensus.
+
+Create or update the corresponding maintenance branches:
+
+.. tab-set::
+
+ .. tab-item:: Initial Release Candidate
+
+ .. code-block::
+
+ # Execute the following from an up to date master branch.
+ # This will create a branch locally called maint-X.Y.Z
Review Comment:
I've added a minor comment, let me know what you think:
```
# Execute the following from an up to date master branch.
# This will create a branch locally called maint-X.Y.Z
# X.Y.Z corresponds with the Major, Minor and Patch version
number
# of the release respectively. As an example 9.0.0
```
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