Rev 6019: Add a step-by-step for x.y.0 to minimize the window where trunk is "closed". in file:///home/vila/src/bzr/releases/work/

[Vincent Ladeuil]

At file:///home/vila/src/bzr/releases/work/

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revno: 6019
revision-id: v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr-20110722073335-odih06kalug3355m
parent: v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr-20110722070704-kqgp9f7mmh8cbsl1
committer: Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr>
branch nick: work
timestamp: Fri 2011-07-22 09:33:35 +0200
message:
  Add a step-by-step for x.y.0 to minimize the window where trunk is "closed".
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=== modified file 'doc/developers/releasing.txt'
--- a/doc/developers/releasing.txt	2011-07-22 07:07:04 +0000
+++ b/doc/developers/releasing.txt	2011-07-22 07:33:35 +0000
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 When do we relase ?
 ===================
 
-As of July 2010, we maintain four series (and one that is about to be EOLed).
+As of July 2011, we maintain four series (and one that is about to be EOLed).
 Concurrently releasing them all at the same time makes it harder to shorten
 the delay between the source availability and the package building longer
 than necessary (we delay the official announcement until most of our users
@@ -416,7 +416,17 @@
 won't be released sooner than a month from now whereas people may already
 been waiting to land on ``lp:bzr``.
 
-   
+In a nutshell:
+
+#. Create or update the ``x.y`` PQM branch based on whatever
+   revision you want to release
+
+#. Open ``lp:bzr`` for ``x.(y+1)``
+
+#. Release ``x.y.0`` from ``lp:bzr/x.y``
+
+#. Open ``lp:bzr/x.y`` for bug fixes
+
 Announcing the source freeze
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