From 4b347fe5368aedc161e172bd110e05e2f7f37463 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Fogel Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 16:03:27 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that doc fixes are okay in feature freeze * CONTRIBUTE (branches): Explain that doc fixes are always safe, even on a release branch in feature freeze. Tweak wording of paragraph after that to avoid a misleading contrast. --- CONTRIBUTE | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index a02acadc73f..c12f0cc08db 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -191,9 +191,11 @@ branch later by the gitmerge function. Documentation fixes (in doc strings, in manuals, and in comments) should always go to the release branch, if the documentation to be -fixed exists and is relevant to the release-branch codebase. +fixed exists and is relevant to the release-branch codebase. Doc +fixes are always considered "safe" -- even when a release branch is in +feature freeze, it can still receive doc fixes. -However, if you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the +When you know that the change will be difficult to merge to the master (e.g., because the code on master has changed a lot), you can apply the change to both master and branch yourself. It could also happen that a change is cherry-picked from master to the release -- 2.39.2