sunchao commented on code in PR #6218:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet/pull/6218#discussion_r4104757387


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docs/source/contributor-guide/ci.md:
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@@ -341,6 +341,30 @@ and Iceberg 1.11. If everything is skipped, open the run's 
`Detect changes` job:
 `Nightly base:` commit it diffed against and the list of changed files, which 
is enough to tell a
 genuinely quiet day from a base that has drifted.
 
+## Release branches
+
+Release branches (`branch-N.M`) have the same workflow files as `main`, but 
only the PR tier runs on
+them. The merge queue covers only `main`, `ci.yml` runs on push only for 
`main`, and GitHub fires
+scheduled workflows only on the default branch, so a release branch gets no 
scheduled `ci.yml`,
+Miri or CodeQL run. A pull request targeting a release branch, such as a 
backport, runs the PR tier,
+and nothing runs after it merges.
+
+Label a backport for the suites it could affect, as described in
+[Opting a pull request into a suite the PR tier 
skips](#opting-a-pull-request-into-a-suite-the-pr-tier-skips).
+On a release branch a label is the only way a queue-tier suite runs before the 
change lands, and
+there is no nightly behind it to catch what the labels missed.
+
+To run every suite against a release branch, dispatch `ci.yml` on it:
+
+```sh
+gh workflow run ci.yml --repo apache/datafusion-comet --ref branch-N.M
+```
+
+The release process does this before tagging each release candidate; see
+[Run the Full CI Suite](release_process.md#run-the-full-ci-suite). A failed 
dispatched run opens no
+`ci-nightly-failure` issue. The `docs` job, which publishes the website, runs 
only from `main`, so

Review Comment:
   [P2] Please require the target release branch to contain the deployment 
guard before promising that dispatch leaves the website alone. Following the 
newly documented command with `--ref branch-1.0` executes that branch’s 
existing workflow, which sets `docs=true` and permits deployment on 
`workflow_dispatch`. A successful docs build then replaces `asf-site` with the 
release branch’s site using `rsync --delete` and pushes it, contrary to this 
guarantee. Merging the guard into `main` does not update existing branches. 
Qualify both dispatch instructions with a prerequisite to verify/backport the 
guard, or explicitly limit them to branches containing this change.
   
   Evidence: Read-only GitHub inspection pinned `branch-1.0` to 
`634c885709a9cedce2ad18567667b309d7571f4a`. At that SHA, 
`.github/workflows/ci.yml:142` forces every output, including `docs`, to true 
on dispatch, and lines 202–205 permit dispatch and call the branch-local 
`docs.yaml`. That callee has only an Apache-repository guard and copies to 
`asf-site` with `rsync --delete` before pushing at lines 66–84. Offline 
evaluation with `github.event_name='workflow_dispatch'`, 
`github.ref='refs/heads/branch-1.0'` and `docs='true'` returned true for the 
existing branch’s deployment condition and false for this PR’s condition. No 
workflow was dispatched.



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