go/doc
Dmitri Shuralyov acc93dac83 doc/next: populate TODOs found with relnote todo
This is the first round of TODOs created based on relnote todo output.
There are many entries that need to be documented, expanded, reworded,
and this change makes progress on setting that up.

For this cycle, relnote todo implemented a simple heuristic of finding
CLs that mention accepted proposals (see issue 62376, or comment
https://go.dev/issue/62376#issuecomment-2101086794 specifically).
The "Items that don't need to be mentioned in Go 1.23 release notes but
are picked up by relnote todo." section in todo.md contains an attempt
at reviewing that list. The large number of items needed to be reviewed
made it impractical to spend much time on any individual one.

For #65614.

Change-Id: Id9d5f1795575a46df2ec4ed0088de07ee6075a90
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/588015
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@google.com>
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2024-05-23 20:49:22 +00:00
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initial doc/initial, doc/next: add draft notice to introduction 2024-05-22 18:25:26 +00:00
next doc/next: populate TODOs found with relnote todo 2024-05-23 20:49:22 +00:00
asm.html doc: document PCALIGN directive 2023-11-28 19:15:27 +00:00
go1.17_spec.html all: consistently use "IEEE 754" over "IEEE-754" 2024-04-11 20:22:45 +00:00
go_mem.html doc: close HTML tags 2024-03-04 15:54:42 +00:00
go_spec.html spec: clarify when range expression is evaluated 2024-05-02 22:43:51 +00:00
godebug.md doc: fix two instances of "the the" in godebug.md 2024-05-23 01:45:30 +00:00
README.md doc/README.md: give example of package-less symbol link 2024-05-16 18:37:47 +00:00

Release Notes

The initial and next subdirectories of this directory are for release notes.

For developers

Release notes should be added to next by editing existing files or creating new files. Do not add RELNOTE=yes comments in CLs. Instead, add a file to the CL (or ask the author to do so).

At the end of the development cycle, the files will be merged by being concatenated in sorted order by pathname. Files in the directory matching the glob "*stdlib/*minor" are treated specially. They should be in subdirectories corresponding to standard library package paths, and headings for those package paths will be generated automatically.

Files in this repo's api/next directory must have corresponding files in doc/next/*stdlib/*minor. The files should be in the subdirectory for the package with the new API, and should be named after the issue number of the API proposal. For example, if the directory 6-stdlib/99-minor is present, then an api/next file with the line

pkg net/http, function F #12345

should have a corresponding file named doc/next/6-stdlib/99-minor/net/http/12345.md. At a minimum, that file should contain either a full sentence or a TODO, ideally referring to a person with the responsibility to complete the note.

If your CL addresses an accepted proposal, mention the proposal issue number in your release note in the form /issue/NUMBER. A link to the issue in the text will have this form (see below). If you don't want to mention the issue in the text, add it as a comment:

<!-- go.dev/issue/12345 -->

If an accepted proposal is mentioned in a CL but not in the release notes, it will be flagged as a TODO by the automated tooling. That is true even for proposals that add API.

Use the following forms in your markdown:

[http.Request]                     # symbol documentation; auto-linked as in Go doc strings
[Request]                          # short form, for symbols in the package being documented
[#12345](/issue/12345)             # GitHub issues
[CL 6789](/cl/6789)                # Gerrit changelists

For the release team

The relnote tool, at golang.org/x/build/cmd/relnote, operates on the files in doc/next.

As a release cycle nears completion, run relnote todo to get a list of unfinished release note work.

To prepare the release notes for a release, run relnote generate. That will merge the .md files in next into a single file.

To begin the next release development cycle, delete the contents of next and replace them with those of initial. From the repo root:

> cd doc
> rm -r next/*
> cp -r initial/* next

Then edit next/1-intro.md to refer to the next version.