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doc: remove confusing release candidate statements

Message ID 20240515110552.46458-1-thomas@monjalon.net (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Commit Message

Thomas Monjalon May 15, 2024, 11:05 a.m. UTC 
The help of "dpdk-next-*" repositories is welcome at all stages,
except maybe during the last release candidate.
Better to remove statements about a time limit,
and let decisions happen on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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 doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Ferruh Yigit May 16, 2024, 9:24 a.m. UTC | #1 
On 5/15/2024 12:05 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> The help of "dpdk-next-*" repositories is welcome at all stages,
> except maybe during the last release candidate.
> Better to remove statements about a time limit,
> and let decisions happen on the fly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
>

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
Thomas Monjalon June 20, 2024, 3:50 a.m. UTC | #2 
16/05/2024 11:24, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 5/15/2024 12:05 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > The help of "dpdk-next-*" repositories is welcome at all stages,
> > except maybe during the last release candidate.
> > Better to remove statements about a time limit,
> > and let decisions happen on the fly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> 
> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>

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diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
index 7605ea4d64..04c66bebc4 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@  The DPDK development process has the following features:
 * Patches are reviewed publicly on the mailing list.
 * Successfully reviewed patches are merged to the repository.
 * Patches should be sent to the target repository or sub-tree, see below.
-* All sub-repositories are merged into main repository for ``-rc1`` and ``-rc2`` versions of the release.
-* After the ``-rc2`` release all patches should target the main repository.
 
 The mailing list for DPDK development is `dev@dpdk.org <https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/>`_.
 Contributors will need to `register for the mailing list <https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>`_ in order to submit patches.