diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/developer/workflow.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/developer/workflow.rst b/doc/developer/workflow.rst index 2ce5f5d1c8..7cec5020b2 100644 --- a/doc/developer/workflow.rst +++ b/doc/developer/workflow.rst @@ -98,6 +98,16 @@ March/July/November. Walking backwards from this date: ``dev/MAJOR.MINOR`` at this point) and a ``rc1`` release candidate is tagged. Master is unfrozen and new features may again proceed. + Part of unfreezing master is editing the ``AC_INIT`` statement in + :file:`configure.ac` to reflect the new development version that master + now refers to. This is accompanied by a ``frr-X.Y-dev`` tag on master, + which should always be on the first commit on master *after* the stable + branch was forked (even if that is not the edit to ``AC_INIT``; it's more + important to have it on the very first commit on master after the fork.) + + (The :file:`configure.ac` edit and tag push are considered git housekeeping + and are pushed directly to ``master``, not through a PR.) + - 2 weeks earlier, a ``rc2`` release candidate is tagged. - on release date, the branch is renamed to ``stable/MAJOR.MINOR``. |