aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/dev
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorVincent Laporte2019-10-07 09:33:38 +0000
committerVincent Laporte2019-10-07 12:16:22 +0000
commit96898039d5ef090c25b6f8dd740e652212c7806a (patch)
treee986b5423ab23fb0259334b4d2faaa7076a1db4e /dev
parente01c9132fc505a3c443bee27d88dcd16a566616f (diff)
Release process: release notes
Explain into the release process how to prepare the release notes.
Diffstat (limited to 'dev')
-rw-r--r--dev/doc/release-process.md6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/dev/doc/release-process.md b/dev/doc/release-process.md
index ea268f9d4e..1c486b024d 100644
--- a/dev/doc/release-process.md
+++ b/dev/doc/release-process.md
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ in time.
## Before the beta release date ##
- [ ] Ensure the Credits chapter has been updated.
+- [ ] Prepare the release notes (see e.g.,
+ [#10833](https://github.com/coq/coq/pull/10833)): in a PR against the `master`
+ branch, move the contents from all files of `doc/changelog/` that appear in
+ the release branch into the manual `doc/sphinx/changes.rst`. Merge that PR
+ into the `master` branch and backport it to the version branch.
- [ ] Ensure that an appropriate version of the plugins we will distribute with
Coq has been tagged.
- [ ] Have some people test the recently auto-generated Windows and MacOS
@@ -139,6 +144,7 @@ in time.
## At the final release time ##
+- [ ] Prepare the release notes (see above)
- [ ] In a PR:
- Change the version name from X.X.0 and the magic numbers (see
[#7271](https://github.com/coq/coq/pull/7271/files)).