release technician checklist: More explicit XEN_EXTRAVERSION

In particular, say clearly that X.Y-unstable should be thus, not
X.Y.0-unstable.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

diff --git a/docs/process/release-technician-checklist.txt b/docs/process/release-technician-checklist.txt
index ebf338c9d42afb0e43c29cae86de2da9dd02cc50..f4bee4ee134d260e36c7eca80036cd95f129c9fc 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/process/release-technician-checklist.txt
+++ b/docs/process/release-technician-checklist.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,11 @@ t=RELEASE-$r
 * change xen-unstable xen/Makefile XEN_EXTRAVERSION
 # if main version number has changed (eg 4.7 -> 4.8) rerun ./autogen.sh
 * rerun ./autogen.sh to update version number in configure
-#    - XEN_EXTRAVERSION should be `.0-rc$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)'
+#    - XEN_EXTRAVERSION should be as follows
+#      `.0-rc$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)'       during freeze, first rc onwards (including staging, before branching)
+#      `-unstable$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)'   unstable aka unfrozen staging (or unstable branch, after branching)
+#      `.0$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)'          actual release of Xen X.Y.0 (aka first actual release of Xen X.Y)
+#      `.Z$(XEN_VENDORVERSION)'          actual release of Xen X.Y.Z (stable point realase)
 #
 #    - turn off debug on stable branches, if not already done
 #           - tools/Rules.mk