Re: Release procedures improvements.

Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

> --On Tuesday, April 5, 2005 12:50 AM +0100 Philip Martin
> <philip@codematters.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Yes. The name need not contain 1.2 or even subversion, it's a very
>> short-term label after all, it doesn't need to be recognisable. The
>> tarball can be renamed when the RM decides to release it, all the
>> signtures should remain valid.
>
>
> I'm concerned that we would then end up with two files that are
> identical in all but name. And, for some reason, that strikes me as
> odd. -- justin

Now this I really don't understand. A file name is not a holy relic.
This is *exactly* like making a tag in the repostory -- for a moment,
you have two trees that are identical in all but URL. Big deal.

Using a different name for the prerelease tarball *and the prerelease
tag* will solve 99% of the jump-the-gun problems, and will still let us
keep the testing/signing public. So:

    1.1.x-prerelease.(tar.(gz|bz2)|zip)

and

    tags/1.1.x-prerelease

Then "blessing" includes renaming the tag and the tarballs. Signatures,
checksums etc remain valid, you can cut the tarball from the tag (which
is imho a better than modifying svn_version.h in the tag to fit the
tarball).

-- Brane

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Received on Tue Apr 5 02:25:32 2005