[LLVMdev] [3.7 Release] We have branched

Sean Silva
Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:41:48 -0000

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Hans Wennborg <hans at 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).

-- Sean Silva


>
> Cheers,
> Hans
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