[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/3] docs/releasing.html: polish cherry-picking/testing text
Emil Velikov
emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Wed Nov 7 16:02:57 UTC 2018
From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
Reword slightly and highlight the important parts of the text.
CC: Andres Gomez <agomez at igalia.com>
CC: Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com>
CC: Juan A. Suarez Romero <jasuarez at igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
---
docs/releasing.html | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
1 file 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
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