From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com (youngberry.canonical.com [91.189.89.112]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A612B92 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:33:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 1.general.paelzer.uk.vpn ([10.172.196.172] helo=lap.fritz.box) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1fsNdo-0007mk-J5; Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:33:20 +0000 From: Christian Ehrhardt To: Luca Boccassi , dpdk stable Cc: Christian Ehrhardt Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:33:17 +0200 Message-Id: <20180822073317.17185-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 Subject: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] Readme: clarify that rc tag will be created by step 4 X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:33:21 -0000 Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt --- README | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 8a2ccea..06f4be5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -87,6 +87,12 @@ that we are going to have following commits for a stable/LTS release. Do you have more comments, something like this commit should be removed, or something are missing, etc. +This will also create a tag like v18.05.1-rc1 for you. +Before sending this mail you might want to make a RC tarball available. +To get that push the tag to the repository, hooks will generate a tarball. +The generated link in the mail to the tag will not only show the tag, +but also have links to the tarballs. + The usage is simple, just time the command, it then will generate an email with the notification content. What you need to so it to edit it when necessary (say, leaving more time for review) and send it out. -- 2.17.1