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Re: PATCH for Re: Release notes for GCC 7?


On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Richard Biener wrote:
>> We've been creating those lazily over the last decade.  We can change
>> that, an entry for releasing.html is appreciated then so we don't forget.
>
> And here we go, in time for the release of GCC 7 / branching of GCC 8.
>
> (Except, this time I went ahead and already created gcc-8/changes.html
> so that you guys don't have to worry about that. ;-)
>
> Note, I added this to branching.html, not releasing.html, not the least
> since branching.html already had the creation of other web pages for the
> new release series and that also seems the more appropriate point time-
> wise.  Agreed?

Yes.

Thanks,
Richard.

> Gerald
>
>
> Index: branching.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/branching.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.32
> diff -u -r1.32 branching.html
> --- branching.html      28 Jun 2014 10:34:16 -0000      1.32
> +++ branching.html      12 Mar 2017 22:37:59 -0000
> @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
>  <body>
>  <p>This page documents the procedure for making a new release branch.</p>
>
> +<h2>Preparations</h2>
> +
>  <ol>
>  <li>Execute the following commands, substituting appropriate version
>  numbers:
> @@ -38,15 +40,25 @@
>  for the next major release in the <code>wwwdocs</code> repository and
>  populate it with initial copies of <code>changes.html</code> and
>  <code>criteria.html</code>.</li>
> +</ol>
>
> -<li>Add <code>index.html</code> and <code>buildstat.html</code> pages
> -to the directory corresponding to the newly created release branch.
> -Update the toplevel <code>buildstat.html</code> accordingly.</li>
> +<h2>Web Site Updates</h2>
> +
> +<ol start="6">
> +<li>Add <code>index.html</code> and <code>changes.html</code> pages
> +based on the previous release branch to the directory corresponding to
> +the newly created release branch.</li>
> +
> +<li>Add <code>buildstat.html</code> and update the toplevel
> +<code>buildstat.html</code> accordingly.</li>
>
>  <li>Update the toplevel <code>index.html</code> page to show the new active
>  release branch, the current release series, and active development
>  (mainline).  Update the version and development stage for mainline.</li>
> +</ol>
>
> +<ol start="9">
>  <li>Update <code>maintainer-scripts/crontab</code> on the mainline by
>  adding an entry to make snapshots of the new branch and adjusting the
>  version number of the mainline snapshots.
> @@ -67,7 +79,11 @@
>  <a href="translation.html#submit">Send them
>  to the translation project</a> if no snapshot of this version was sent
>  during development stage 3 or 4.</li>
> +</ol>
>
> +<h2>Bugzilla Updates</h2>
> +
> +<ol start="11">
>  <li>Create new versions in Bugzilla corresponding to the new mainline
>  version.  This can be accomplished by choosing "products", choosing "gcc",
>  and editing the versions.  Please do <strong>not</strong> delete old
> @@ -85,7 +101,6 @@
>  <li>Ask Daniel Berlin to adjust all PRs with the just-branched version
>  in their summary to also contain the new version corresponding to
>  mainline.</li>
> -
>  </ol>
>
>  </body>


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