[llvm] r181328 - Mention SystemZ in the release notes

[Sean Silva]

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Bill Wendling <isanbard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 7, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Rafael Espíndola <
> rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Yeah, that's tricky. In our git setup, is there a way to commit these
> > > updates directly to the release branch? (I'm guessing that it's
> possible
> > > from SVN, but I'm clueless about SVN). If it's not possible to commit
> > > directly to the 3.3 release notes from git, then that would be a severe
> > > inconvenience for git users.
> > >
> > > If it is possible to commit directly in some easy way, then we should
> > > probably clean out the trunk release notes and have them be the "3.4"
> > > release notes, with a prominent warning at the top to tell developers
> to
> > > commit directly to the release branch for 3.3 updates.
> >
> > There are not that many patches that need to go to the branch, so in
> > the past I have just used svn directly. I is fairly simple for this:
> >
> > $ svn co https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_33
> > $ build a patch with git, in the same way you would for sending it for
> > review (the branch is missing on the git mirror, but I expect it to
> > show up soon).
> > $ cd /the/path/release_33
> > $ patch -p1 < your_patch.patch
> > $ svn commit
> >
> >
> > Ah, ok. Unfortunately, even though that's not so complicated, it does
> seem to take at least an order of magnitude more time than simply
> committing "as usual"; hence it would discourage people from adding to the
> release notes.
> >
> Perhaps we should create a temporary ReleaseNotes_34.rst file instead? All
> 3.4 notes would go there. The 3.3 release notes would go into the regular
> file.
>
> Vice versa, we could rename the current one ReleaseNotes_33.rst and use
> the ReleaseNotes.rst as the "new" one.
>
>
This sounds like a good idea. I don't have a strong preference either way.

-- Sean Silva
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