[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] update step 5.5 in regard to tag/tarball/web handling

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
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 README | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 8d37403..8d1ceda 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -118,8 +118,26 @@ I haven't write a script for that. But the two have to be done before
 we making a formal release. Thus, this section is titled 5.5.
 
 Git push to dpdk-stable remote will trigger the dpdk host server to generate
-the release tar package. It will return a md5sum in the end, which is needed
-to update the dpdk-web.
+the release tar package.
+Be careful to push the branch first and only then the tag (or both at once),
+otherwise some server side automations might silently fail to update properly.
+
+This will return a md5sum in the end, which is needed to update the dpdk-web.
+Example:
+  remote: MD5 (to copy in HTML page)
+  remote: 5e278012506c76d981e4283a92adec1c  /srv/rel/dpdk-18.05.1.tar.xz
+
+You want to prepiare a change to the DPDK-web, so grab their repository.
+  $ git clone git://dpdk.org/tools/dpdk-web
+
+Modify the file content/download/_index.md
+ - update the tarball name
+ - check that the link to the documentation really has your tag listed
+   at the top left
+ - check that the downloadable tarball matches the md5 listed on the
+   git push output
+ - add that new md5 to the file
+and finally suggest that change to the web team at web at dpdk.org
 
 
 6-announce-release
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2.17.1