The checklist requires to have access to several accounts on both
xenbits and osstest. List those accounts at the beginning of the file
so it is easier to check if one has the permissions before starting
the branching process.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
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Changes in v2:
- Add Henry's reviewed-by
Make clear the patchbot is accessible from the user "xen" on xenbits.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
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Changes in v2:
- Add Henry's reviewed-by
- Add George's acked-by
The cambridge colo was internal to Citrix (now Cloud) and hasn't been used
by the community for a while.
So remove the section.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@cloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
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Changes in v2:
- Add George's acked-by
- Add Henry's reviewed-by
Since at least Xen 4.12, the revision for external trees don't contain
the word "unstable". So explicitly list the *_REVISION variables that
need to be updated as part of the branching process.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
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Changes in v2:
* Explain what should be the tag format for each variables
The steps to add the new branch in osstest doesn't mention the change
should be committed.
Update the steps to clarify that. Take the opportunity to switch to
use $v instead hardcoded version.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
The steps to generate the documentation for the new branch requires
to ssh as root and then su to run with the user xendocs.
The release technician may not (and should not) have access to root.
So update the step to directly ssh as xendocs.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@cloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
At the moment, branch-checklist.txt is using a mix of soft and hard
tab. They are both meant to be represented using 8 characters.
In Xen we tend to use 4-space softtab represented with 4 characters. So
to avoid having to use a different editor configuration, switch all
the indentation to 4-space softtab.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@cloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Explain how the banner in README is generated and take the opportunity
to mention what it should look like for RC.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Add git commands examples that can be used to generate fixes and how to
use the pretty configuration for git.
This should make it easier for contributors to have the right format.
Signed-off-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
As it is coming up basically every release cycle of Xen, add a
reference to the discussion why the current release scheme has been
selected in the release management documentation.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Henry Wang <Henry.Wang@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Add a document to describe the rules for sending a proper patch.
As it contains all the information already being present in
docs/process/tags.pandoc remove that file.
The "Reviewed-by:" and "Acked-by:" tags are expanded to allow an
optional restriction of the tag.
A new tag "Origin:" is added to tag patches taken from another project.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Our releases look to flip-flop between keeping or discarding the date
and title of the referenced qemu-trad commit. I think with the hash
replaced by a tag, the commit's date and title would better also be
purged.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
And update the release technician checklist to mention to edit it.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
The runes for this manual osstest were wrong. It needs to run as
osstest, and cr-for-branches should be run from testing.git.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Change the url scheme to https. This is all in-tree references to
xenbits and the main website except for those in Config.mk.
We leave Config.mk alone for now because those urls are used by CI
systems and we need to check that nothing breaks when we change the
download method.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
cr-daily-branch ought to be called via cr-for-branches so that we take
the lock. Otherwise strange things can occur if cron runs
cr-daily-branch in the same directory - in particular, it will be
likely to update the osstest revision, breaking everything.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
In particular, say clearly that X.Y-unstable should be thus, not
X.Y.0-unstable.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Provide a rune, following which a magit selective git add
(or git add -p) can be used to commit the appropriate changes.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
It is only necessary to change Config.mk if it refers to unstable
branches anywhere. This time, for example, it didn't.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Fix text about release cycle. Drop the conjured up example that's no
longer applicable.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
In order to have a link to the release notes in the feature list
generated from SUPPORT.md add that link in the "Release Support"
section of that file.
The real link needs to be adapted when the version is being released.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Document two steps which were done this time, and last time:
(i) setting off an early osstest run
(ii) sending the mail confirming it's done.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Split out the required work for the new and old branches and be more
specific about what is to be done. In the RT checklist, reformat and
expand the "turn off debug" instructions.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
* Drop reference to long-gone Citrix-internal HG trees
* Drop reference to RT-accessible web pages; web page editing
is now handled via the RM, community manager, etc.
* Drop reference to git description files; this is not needed
because now we have one tree with all branches, not one per branch
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
The 4.10 release preparation was significantly more hairy than ideal.
(We seem to have a good overall outcome despite, rather than because
of, our approach.)
This is the second time (at least) that we have come close to failure
by committing to a release date before the exact code to be released
is known and has been made and tested.
Evidently our docs makes it insufficiently clear not to do that.
CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Preparing a real release, not just an RC, involves making commits.
Typically, those will be on staging-$x. The tag will refer to them,
and the checklist already says to push them to xenbits.
But if the *branch* is not pushed, then people who just "git fetch"
won't get the tag because it refers to commits they don't have.
(Because of the strange rules git has about tag fetching.)
Worse, the same may be true of people who "git clone".
And anyway, those commits *should* be fed to staging-$x.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
The old instructions were obsolete. Here are the details I used when
branching for 4.10.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Clarify what is expected of the release technician for SUPPORT.md: fix
the version number field. The support dates will be set by the
release manageer.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
This contains instructions and shell runes for the Release Technician,
who is the person doing the technical admin to construct the release,
fork branches, make tags and tarballs, etc.
Rename it to make this clearer.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Julien Grall