summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/PROCESS.md
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorYorick Peterse <yorickpeterse@gmail.com>2019-01-04 12:42:20 +0000
committerYorick Peterse <yorickpeterse@gmail.com>2019-01-04 12:42:20 +0000
commit8947e59d9191b9723dc2a49f75dd735b4f3d299c (patch)
treefb1bfa5a54492cb0f7d84c750afe9af1840ed9c8 /PROCESS.md
parent8091ec56d49ffb326f971672c71bd5d6af1c26f4 (diff)
parentaedce9e9ba71f3c9c190556183202fa675ce1be7 (diff)
downloadgitlab-ce-8947e59d9191b9723dc2a49f75dd735b4f3d299c.tar.gz
Merge branch 'mj/process-feature-freeze' into 'master'
Green pipeline for feature freeze PROCESS See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!23809
Diffstat (limited to 'PROCESS.md')
-rw-r--r--PROCESS.md11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/PROCESS.md b/PROCESS.md
index 5aafbd33daf..f2eed5544fc 100644
--- a/PROCESS.md
+++ b/PROCESS.md
@@ -86,10 +86,13 @@ star, smile, etc.). Some good tips about code reviews can be found in our
## Feature freeze on the 7th for the release on the 22nd
-After 7th at 23:59 (Pacific Time Zone) of each month, RC1 of the upcoming
-release (to be shipped on the 22nd) is created and deployed to GitLab.com and
-the stable branch for this release is frozen, which means master is no longer
-merged into it. Merge requests may still be merged into master during this
+After 7th at 23:59 (Pacific Time Zone) of each month, stable branch and RC1
+of the upcoming release (to be shipped on the 22nd) is created and deployed to GitLab.com.
+The stable branch is frozen at the most recent "qualifying commit" on master.
+A "qualifying commit" is one that is pushed before the feature freeze cutoff time
+and that passes all CI jobs (green pipeline).
+
+Merge requests may still be merged into master during this
period, but they will go into the _next_ release, unless they are manually
cherry-picked into the stable branch.