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| author | Emil Velikov <[email protected]> | 2018-11-07 16:02:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Emil Velikov <[email protected]> | 2018-11-15 15:48:08 +0000 |
| commit | 19a081473f4f2a71c4888d27df247079ce1f5276 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fc00ee3e572fc567889ef04753214318e9d0902 | |
| parent | ab5653680e169434a730ff23f3facdae0ca2632d (diff) | |
docs/releasing.html: polish cherry-picking/testing text
Reword slightly and highlight the important parts of the text.
CC: Andres Gomez <[email protected]>
CC: Dylan Baker <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Juan A. Suarez <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releasing.html | 27 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releasing.html b/docs/releasing.html index 52e102207d1..87590b19301 100644 --- a/docs/releasing.html +++ b/docs/releasing.html @@ -111,18 +111,21 @@ the autoconf and scons build. <p>Done continuously up-to the <a href="#prerelease">pre-release</a> announcement.</p> <p> -As an exception, patches can be applied up-to the last ~1h before the actual -release. This is made <strong>only</strong> with explicit permission/request, -and the patch <strong>must</strong> be very well contained. Thus it cannot -affect more than one driver/subsystem. +Developers can request, <em>as an exception</em>, patches to be applied up-to +the last one hour before the actual release. This is made <strong>only</strong> +with explicit permission/request, and the patch <strong>must</strong> be very +well contained. Thus it cannot affect more than one driver/subsystem. </p> -<p> -Currently Ilia Mirkin and AMD devs have requested "permanent" exception. -</p> +<p>Following developers have requested permanent exception</p> +<ul> +<li><em>Ilia Mirkin</em> +<li><em>AMD team</em> +</ul> +<p>The following must pass:</p> <ul> -<li>make distcheck, scons and scons check must pass +<li>make distcheck, scons and scons check <li>Testing with different version of system components - LLVM and others is also performed where possible. <li>As a general rule, testing with various combinations of configure @@ -130,9 +133,9 @@ switches, depending on the specific patchset. </ul> <p> -Achieved by combination of local ad-hoc scripts, mingw-w64 cross -compilation and AppVeyor plus Travis-CI, the latter as part of their -Github integration. +These are achieved by combination of <a href="basictesting">local testing</a>, +which includes mingw-w64 cross compilation and AppVeyor plus Travis-CI, the +latter two as part of their Github integration. </p> <p> @@ -425,7 +428,7 @@ Ensure the latest code is available - both in your local master and the relevant branch. </p> -<h3>Perform basic testing</h3> +<h3 id="basictesting">Perform basic testing</h3> <p> Most of the testing should already be done during the |