[Buildroot] [PATCH v3] docs/website: link LTS tooling documentation and staging branch

[Thomas Perale via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Users asked where the notes are available and if the information are
publicly available.

Those changes clearly explain the location and convention of the staging
branches and also link to more documentation on how to read the
annotations.

Also update the timing of the different steps to be less specific.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>
---
v1 -> v2: took into account review from https://lore.kernel.org/r/f6b4e9a2-8ee5-4799-960f-36dbf5710da6@cherry.de
v2 -> v3: took into account review from https://lore.kernel.org/r/8d6fa46d-8200-454e-b5ac-aeccc4809647@cherry.de
---
 docs/website/lts.html | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/website/lts.html b/docs/website/lts.html
index 3bfd2a4374..8384d3a88b 100644
--- a/docs/website/lts.html
+++ b/docs/website/lts.html
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
             <p class="br-lts-item-text">
             Tracking of the vulnerabilities affecting Buildroot
             is available at
-            <a href="https://security.buildroot.org/2025.02.x/vulnerability">security.buildroot.org</a>.
+            <a href="https://security.buildroot.org/">security.buildroot.org</a>.
             <br/>
             LTS stewards ensure this data remains up-to-date by actively
             maintaining Buildroot packages metadata.
@@ -166,10 +166,6 @@
     <br/>
     <br/>
 
-    <p>
-    More details about the LTS workflow at <a href="https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot-lts-tools">buildroot.org/buildroot-lts-tools</a>.
-    </p>
-
     <div id="organization" class="br-lts-section-header">
         <div class="br-lts-bg-grid"></div>
         <div class="br-lts-title-box">How we work</div>
@@ -181,12 +177,28 @@
     analyze based on the previous week's commits to the master branch. The
     commits are then annotated to define a list of candidates for the LTS
     branches.
-    <br><br>
-    On Thursday, the candidates are cherry-picked to a staging branch to be
-    reviewed by the other maintainers. On Thursday evening the branch is
-    synced with upstream and contributors are notified. Feedback from
-    users, sponsors and autobuilders are then collected and vulnerability
-    analyses updated.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+    Mid-week, the candidates are cherry-picked to a staging branch hosted on
+    <a href="https://gitlab.com/essensium-mind/buildroot/">gitlab.com/essensium-mind/buildroot</a>.
+    Every maintained branch has a staging branch, with the <code>.x</code>
+    suffix replaced by <code>.pre</code>. The staging branch allows other
+    maintainers to review the changes before they are pushed upstream.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+    By the end of the week, the staging branches are pushed upstream and
+    contributors are notified. Feedback from users, sponsors and
+    <a href="https://autobuild.buildroot.org/">autobuilders</a>
+    are then collected and
+    <a href="https://security.buildroot.org/">vulnerability analyses</a>
+    updated.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+    For more information about the development workflow, see the
+    <a href="https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot-lts-tools/-/blob/main/tools/README.md">documentation</a>.
     </p>
     <br/>
 
@@ -222,13 +234,13 @@
         </div>
 
         <div class="br-lts-chart-row br-lts-chart-row--tall">
-            <div class="br-lts-chart-label">Sync with upstream branch</div>
-            <div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-col-start-9"></div>
+            <div class="br-lts-chart-label">Push to upstream branch</div>
+            <div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-bar--span-2 br-lts-col-start-9"></div>
         </div>
 
         <div class="br-lts-chart-row br-lts-chart-row--tall">
             <div class="br-lts-chart-label">Update vulns</div>
-            <div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-col-start-10"></div>
+            <div class="br-lts-bar br-lts-bar--span-2 br-lts-col-start-10"></div>
         </div>
     </div>
 
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2.55.0

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