On 3 April 2016 at 10:35, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2016-04-03, sebb wrote: > >> On 3 April 2016 at 06:01, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On 2016-04-03, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > >>>> Could we delete the tag 1.11-RC1 now? > >>> AFAIR we keep all tags, even those for failed RC votes. > >> Sometimes tags are withdrawn before a vote is called; I think it's OK >> to delete those, but it's best not to re-use the name. >> So the first vote might be called on RC3 ... > > In this specific case we are talking about a tag for a failed vote - one > I canceled. > >> For tags that have been used in a vote, we should certainly keep them >> until the end of the vote as it makes diffing easier. > >> However I'm not sure that it is necessary to keep superseded tags once >> the vote is complete. >> As long as the tag URL and revision are in the vote e-mail, the >> contents of such tags can still be reconstructed. > > Maybe, maybe not. I've decided to create the tag as a detached head. If > I remove the tag a garbage collection may remove the commit. In this > specific case it's no problem since the new tag for RC2 points at the > same commit, but it's not true in general.
Oops, I was forgetting that Compress now uses Git. So I agree that we probably should keep tags forever once they have been used in a vote. In the case of SVN, the URL and revision are sufficient to reconstruct the contents of the vote tag. > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
