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authorQuentin Young <qlyoung@nvidia.com>2021-11-09 22:21:55 +0100
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doc: change instructions for running release tests
Signed-off-by: Quentin Young <qlyoung@nvidia.com>
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@@ -102,11 +102,13 @@ FRR Release Procedure
The version field should be complete; i.e. for ``8.0.0``, the version should
be ``8.0.0`` and not ``8.0`` or ``8``.
-#. Create a new branch off of ``stable/<version>``. Add a dummy commit to it
- and create a GitHub pull request from it with the target branch set to
- ``stable/<version>``. This will trigger the various CI systems, which serve
- as a sanity check on the release branch. Verify that all tests pass and that
- all package builds are successful.
+#. Push the stable branch to a new remote branch prefixed with ``rc``::
+
+ git push origin stable/<version>:rc/version
+
+ This will trigger the NetDEF CI, which serve as a sanity check on the
+ release branch. Verify that all tests pass and that all package builds are
+ successful.
#. Create and push a git tag for the version: