Re: [bitbake-devel] [PATCH] doc: update releases.rst

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

On Mon Jun 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM CEST, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> Hi Antonin,
>
> On 5/28/25 7:45 PM, Antonin Godard via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>> Add Walnascar as a supported release manual, and move Styhead to the
>> outdated release manuals.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
>> ---
>>   doc/releases.rst | 14 ++++++++++----
>>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/doc/releases.rst b/doc/releases.rst
>> index 3e8014074..676db66ec 100644
>> --- a/doc/releases.rst
>> +++ b/doc/releases.rst
>> @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
>>   BitBake Supported Release Manuals
>>   =================================
>>   
>> -****************************
>> -Release Series 5.1 (styhead)
>> -****************************
>> +******************************
>> +Release Series 5.2 (walnascar)
>> +******************************
>>   
>> -- :yocto_docs:`BitBake 2.10 User Manual </bitbake/2.10/>`
>> +- :yocto_docs:`BitBake 2.12 User Manual </bitbake/2.12/>`
>>   
>>   *******************************
>>   Release Series 5.0 (scarthgap)
>> @@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ Release Series 4.0 (kirkstone)
>>   BitBake Outdated Release Manuals
>>   ================================
>>   
>> +****************************
>> +Release Series 5.1 (styhead)
>> +****************************
>> +
>> +- :yocto_docs:`BitBake 2.10 User Manual </bitbake/2.10/>`
>> +
>>   *******************************
>>   Release Series 4.3 (nanbield)
>>   *******************************
>> 
>
> I believe this is handled by the set_versions.py script in yocto-docs? 
> Should we have something similar in bitbake docs as well?

Actually no, this file is not covered by the script (see the website that is
currently out-of-date). I started working on a set_versions.py for BitBake some
time ago, I'll keep that in mind and automatically generate this document here
as well.

> This seems like a decent idea considering that it also handles updating 
> switchers.js and that last time we updated it was almost 5 years ago :)

And that is also something I've reworked but not finished yet!

Thanks,
Antonin

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