doc: release history webpage contains suboptimal links

[AlekSi]

What did you do?

Opened https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#go1.13.minor containing this text:

go1.13.5 (released 2019/12/04) includes fixes to the go command, the runtime, the linker, and the net/http package. See the Go 1.13.5 milestone on our issue tracker for details.

Followed a link to the GitHub milestone: https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.13.5

What did you expect to see?

Issues fixed in 1.13.5.

What did you see instead?

Issues considered for 1.13.5, including the ones that were not backported. For example: #34642

I think either @gopherbot should remove milestone from issues without CherryPickApproved label after release is done, or link in documentation should include this label.

See also #35119 (comment) and below.

[AlekSi]

/cc @dmitshur

[dmitshur]

I agree the current link leads to a page that is hard to read. We shouldn't remove issues from that milestone, because then it will be harder to track history and know what was considered but not accepted. I think a better fix is to add the CherryPickApproved label filter to the link.

We've done this for some past releases (e.g., Go 1.12.9, 1.11.14, and 1.10.7) but not all. We need to adjust the release process so this happens for future releases.

In the mean time, please use this link:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.13.5+label%3ACherryPickApproved

/cc @toothrot @cagedmantis @andybons

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/209918 mentions this issue: doc: add CherryPickApproved filter to Release History links

[dmitshur]

I went through the release history a bit. We started consistently using the CherryPickCandidate and CherryPickApproved labels with Go 1.9.1 and later. They weren't used before Go 1.9. I fixed up some minor inconsistencies (i.e., where a change was acutally cherry-picked but its backport issue was missing CherryPickApproved label) in 1.9-1.10; going through 1.11-1.13 releases is still a TODO.

Sent CL 209918 to add the CherryPickApproved label filter to links for all releases after Go 1.9 for review.

[dmitshur]

@gopherbot, could you please be so kind as to open two backport issues: one for Go 1.13 and another for Go 1.12. This is a documentation fix.

[gopherbot]

Backport issue(s) opened: #36002 (for 1.12), #36003 (for 1.13).

Remember to create the cherry-pick CL(s) as soon as the patch is submitted to master, according to https://golang.org/wiki/MinorReleases.

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/210117 mentions this issue: [release-branch.go1.13] doc: add CherryPickApproved filter to Release History links

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/210118 mentions this issue: [release-branch.go1.12] doc: add CherryPickApproved filter to Release History links