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Posted to commits@subversion.apache.org by ju...@apache.org on 2019/03/01 17:02:09 UTC

svn commit: r1854613 - /subversion/site/publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html

Author: julianfoad
Date: Fri Mar  1 17:02:09 2019
New Revision: 1854613

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1854613&view=rev
Log:
Clarify the 'create a new release branch' docs.

Modified:
    subversion/site/publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html

Modified: subversion/site/publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html?rev=1854613&r1=1854612&r2=1854613&view=diff
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--- subversion/site/publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html (original)
+++ subversion/site/publish/docs/community-guide/releasing.part.html Fri Mar  1 17:02:09 2019
@@ -1321,8 +1321,12 @@ developed.</p>
 Release Manager creates it with the following procedure (substitute
 A.B with the version you're preparing, eg. 1.3, or 2.0).</p>
 
-<p>This can be mostly automated using
-   <tt>tools/dist/create-minor-release-branch.py</tt>.</p>
+<h4>Automated</h4>
+<p>Run this in an empty-ish directory where it will make some temporary checkouts:</p>
+<pre>$SVN_SRC_DIR/tools/dist/create-minor-release-branch.py create-release-branch --verbose A.B.0</pre>
+<div class="notice">Some steps are not automated&mdash;highlighted below.</div>
+
+<h4>Manual Steps</h4>
 <ul>
 <li><p>Create the new release branch with a server-side copy:</p>
     <pre>
@@ -1376,7 +1380,8 @@ A.B with the version you're preparing, e
 
 <li><p>Create a new <tt>STATUS</tt> file on the release branch.</p></li>
 
-<li><p>Ask someone with appropriate access to add the A.B.x branch to the
+<li><div class="notice">This step is not automated.</div>
+    <p>Ask someone with appropriate access to add the A.B.x branch to the
        <tt>svn-role</tt> backport mergebot:</p>
     <p>Submit a pull-request on GitHub to add 'A.B.x' to the list in <a
        href="https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-puppet/edit/deployment/modules/svnqavm_pvm_asf/manifests/init.pp">https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-puppet/edit/deployment/modules/svnqavm_pvm_asf/manifests/init.pp</a></p>