[llvm] r244283 - Describe the process better.

[Sean Silva via llvm-commits]

Author: silvas
Date: Thu Aug  6 17:03:54 2015
New Revision: 244283

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=244283&view=rev
Log:
Describe the process better.

Patch by Vedant Kumar! <vsk at apple.com>

Modified:
    llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst

Modified: llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst?rev=244283&r1=244282&r2=244283&view=diff
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--- llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst Thu Aug  6 17:03:54 2015
@@ -509,9 +509,11 @@ for llvm users and not imposing a big bu
   ``test/Bitcode/compatibility.ll``.
 
 * The bitcode format produced by a X.Y release will be readable by all
-  following X.Z releases and the (X+1).0 release. To help ensure this, an X.Y
-  version of ``test/Bitcode/compatibility.ll`` should be assembled and
-  committed after each release.
+  following X.Z releases and the (X+1).0 release.
+
+* After each X.Y release, ``compatibility.ll`` must be copied to
+  ``compatibility-X.Y.ll``. The corresponding bitcode file should be assembled
+  using the X.Y build and committed as ``compatibility-X.Y.ll.bc``.
 
 * Newer releases can ignore features from older releases, but they cannot
   miscompile them. For example, if nsw is ever replaced with something else,