"How often is reference built and replaced on website?" should be in the README

[mrhota]

It seems like it doesn't happen as often as https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/reference/ might lead you to expect.

[petrochenkov]

This is one of a number of "improvements" brought by moving the reference into a separate submodule.
Now the nightly reference is updated when someone sends a PR updating that submodule to the main repo, get it merged, and the next nightly happens.

[steveklabnik]

That's correct.

In order to not spam the main repo with updates, I plan on doing it once every two or three weeks, along with the book and nomicon repos.

I'm going to keep this ticket open as a "put this into the README", thanks!

[mrhota]

Can't we release the online, compiled docs separately from the release of nightly rust?

[steveklabnik]

Sure, it's possible, but creating yet another duplicate URL for some docs seems like a bad tradeoff to me.

[Havvy]

It might be best to document this process on the forge since this is cross-cutting and then put a link to that into the readme.

[steveklabnik]

https://forge.rust-lang.org/release-process.html is now on the forge, but isn't exactly accessible.