On 7/2/24 19:38, Mark Michelson wrote: > The documentation stated that for soft freeze, the development team > would only consider merging new feature patches that had been "discussed > and reviewed" during the soft freeze period. In reality, the OVN team > has been willing to merge any new feature as long as it has been posted > for review prior to the soft freeze date. The emails sent out by the OVN > team prior to soft freeze have also stated that patches that were posted > for review were under consideration for merging. > > To clear up confusion, the wording in the documentation has been updated > as well now to indicate that patches simply need to be "posted" rather > than being "discussed and reviewed" prior to the soft freeze date. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Michelson <[email protected]> > --- > Documentation/internals/release-process.rst | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst > b/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst > index 988257975..2e9fa4f18 100644 > --- a/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst > +++ b/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst > @@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ Scheduling`_ for the timing of each stage: > 1. "Soft freeze" of the main branch. > > During the freeze, we ask committers to refrain from applying patches that > - add new features unless those patches were already being publicly > discussed > - and reviewed before the freeze began. Bug fixes are welcome at any time. > - Please propose and discuss exceptions on ovs-dev. > + add new features unless those patches were already publicly posted before
'publicly posted' sounds a little strange... Maybe 'posted for review' or 'posted for a public review'? > + the freeze began. Bug fixes are welcome at any time. Please propose Two spaces vs one space. We should be consistent at least within the same paragraph. > + and discuss exceptions on ovs-dev. > > 2. Fork a release branch from main, named for the expected release number, > e.g. "branch-25.09" for the branch that will yield OVN 25.09.x. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
