On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Hans Wennborg <h...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Sean Silva <chisophu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Hans Wennborg <h...@chromium.org> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> The 3.7 release branch was created from trunk at r242221 today (around > >> 10:40 pm UTC). > >> > >> Branch policy: > >> > >> - Any doc changes can go in. Updates to the release notes are highly > >> encouraged, and should be committed directly to the branch. > >> > >> - All other patches should be approved by the release manager (me) and > >> the appropriate code owner. To get a change merged, commit it to > >> trunk, and then reply to the commit email with myself and the code > >> owner cc'd, asking for approval. > >> > >> - Fixes to complete existing features may be merged. However, the > >> features must be completed before Phase II of testing starts, > >> otherwise they should be disabled. If you recently committed something > >> experimental to trunk, please make sure it's disabled on the branch. > >> > >> - For any bug fixes that you think might apply to the release branch, > >> please cc me on the commit message. > > > > > > Do we have any official documentation of these bullet points? It might be > > worth updating http://llvm.org/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.html with some > > information to limit the amount of "tribal knowledge" involved in our > > release process (which has bitten us in the past). > > I'm basing them (and the whole release thing, really) on how Bill used > to do it and the emails he sent out. > > I think that corresponds pretty well to what's on the HowToReleaseLLVM > page under the "Release Timeline" and "Release Patch Rules". Was there > anything in my email you think is missing from there? > All 4 bullet points. In particular, the information is relevant for LLVM developers (rather than the release manager). E.g. who to CC and when, the policy about in-progress features, the policy on doc changes. I understand that HowToReleaseLLVM is targeted at the release manager; could you drop those 4 bullet points into a section in http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html? That seems like the best place for developer-targeted development process information. -- Sean Silva > > Thanks, > Hans >
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