svn commit: r50158 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng
Glen Barber <[email protected]>
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Author: gjb
Date: Thu Apr 13 17:15:53 2017
New Revision: 50158
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50158
Log:
- Add notes about snapshot announcement emails and their helper
scripts.
- Reference the template used for ALPHA, BETA, and RC emails.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/releng-building.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/releng-building.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/releng-building.xml Thu Apr 13 16:18:59 2017 (r50157)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-releng/releng-building.xml Thu Apr 13 17:15:53 2017 (r50158)
@@ -197,6 +197,29 @@ KERNEL="GENERIC64"</programlisting>
&prompt.root; <userinput>./setrev.sh -b &branch.stablex;</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>./zfs-setup.sh -c ./builds-<replaceable>11</replaceable>.conf</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>./thermite.sh -c ./builds-<replaceable>11</replaceable>.conf</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Once the builds have completed, additional helper scripts
+ are available to generate development snapshot emails which are
+ sent to the <literal>[email protected]</literal>
+ mailing list:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /releng/scripts-snapshot/scripts</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>./get-checksums.sh -c ./builds-<replaceable>11</replaceable>.conf | ./generate-email.pl > snapshot-<replaceable>11</replaceable>-mail</userinput></screen>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>The generated output should be double-checked for
+ correctness, and the email itself should be PGP signed,
+ in-line.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>These helper scripts only apply to development snapshot
+ builds. Announcements during the release cycle (excluding the
+ final release announcement) are created from an email
+ template. A sample of the email template currently used can
+ be found <link
+ xlink:href="https://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/gjb/thermite/non-release-template-mail.txt">here</link>.</para>
+ </note>
</sect2>
<sect2 xml:id="releng-build-release">
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