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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This document describes how patches, submitted as pull requests (PRs) on the
## Code owners
-The [CODEOWNERS](/.github/CODEOWNERS) file describes, for each part of the
+The [CODEOWNERS](../../.github/CODEOWNERS) file describes, for each part of the
system, two owners. One is the principal maintainer of the component, the other
is the secondary maintainer.
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ say in a comment they think a review is not required and proceed with the merge.
If the PR breaks compatibility of some external projects in CI, then fixes to
those external projects should have been prepared (cf. the relevant sub-section
-in the [CI README](/dev/ci/README.md#Breaking-changes) and the PR can be tested
-with these fixes thanks to ["overlays"](/dev/ci/user-overlays/README.md).
+in the [CI README](../ci/README.md#Breaking-changes) and the PR can be tested
+with these fixes thanks to ["overlays"](../ci/user-overlays/README.md).
-Moreover the PR must absolutely update the [`CHANGES`](/CHANGES) file.
+Moreover the PR must absolutely update the [`CHANGES`](../../CHANGES) file.
If overlays are missing, ask the author to prepare them and label the PR with
the [needs: overlay](https://github.com/coq/coq/labels/needs%3A%20overlay) label.
@@ -74,7 +74,17 @@ Once all reviewers approved the PR, the assignee is expected to check that CI
completed without relevant failures, and that the PR comes with appropriate
documentation and test cases. If not, they should leave a comment on the PR and
put the approriate label. Otherwise, they are expected to merge the PR using the
-[merge script](/dev/tools/merge-pr.sh).
+[merge script](../tools/merge-pr.sh).
+
+When CI has a few failures which look spurious, restarting the corresponding
+jobs is a good way of ensuring this was indeed the case.
+To restart a job on Travis, you should connect using your GitHub account;
+being part of the Coq organization on GitHub should give you the permission
+to do so.
+To restart a job on GitLab CI, you should sign into GitLab (this can be done
+using a GitHub account); if you are part of the
+[Coq organization on GitLab](https://gitlab.com/coq), you should see a "Retry"
+button; otherwise, send a request to join the organization.
When the PR has conflicts, the assignee can either:
- ask the author to rebase the branch, fixing the conflicts