llvm dev - May 2013 - [LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] [3.3 Release] Release Candidate 2 Available

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at
linaro.org>wrote:
> https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/LLVM/LLVMRelease
>
>
Could you please incorporate this useful document into LLVM's official
documentation? I think that this is good content for encouraging greater
external/downstream involvement in the release process. See
docs/SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst to get up and running fast.

Also, it's weird (possibly disingenuous) seeing linaro.org saying
"we" to
refer to the larger LLVM community (or at least that's how I understand the
"we" in "we aim to release regularly to avoid keeping stable
users away
from new features for too long").

-- Sean Silva
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On 25 May 2013 20:42, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:
> Could you please incorporate this useful document into LLVM's official
> documentation? I think that this is good content for encouraging greater
> external/downstream involvement in the release process. See
> docs/SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst to get up and running fast.
>
I sure can. I thought there was already a doc on that at LLVM about that.
If there is, would be good to start there.


>
> Also, it's weird (possibly disingenuous) seeing linaro.org saying
"we" to
> refer to the larger LLVM community (or at least that's how I understand
the
> "we" in "we aim to release regularly to avoid keeping stable
users away
> from new features for too long").
>
That was certainly not the intention. The wiki page I sent wasn't meant to
the LLVM folks, but internally to Linaro, and by "we" I meant
"the LLVM
community", trying to explain the LLVM release process to Linaro folks.

I'll reword that phrase to avoid any confusion...

cheers,
--renato
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On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at
linaro.org>wrote:
> On 25 May 2013 20:42, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:
>
>> Could you please incorporate this useful document into LLVM's
official
>> documentation? I think that this is good content for encouraging
greater
>> external/downstream involvement in the release process. See
>> docs/SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst to get up and running fast.
>>
>
> I sure can. I thought there was already a doc on that at LLVM about that.
> If there is, would be good to start there.
>
>
AFAIK, the closest we have is
<http://llvm.org/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.html>,
which details basically what the release manager has to do (i.e., the
audience is LLVM developers, and release managers in particular). I really
liked the article you linked because it seemed to be targeted at an
audience of external developers and packagers, for whom we don't (AFAIK)
really have any docs about the release process, how to get involved, etc.
Since the audience is different, I think it should be its own page
(probably "ReleaseProcess.rst" would be fine, but I don't have a
strong
preference).

-- Sean Silva
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