If this is only for staging URLs and doesn’t break the production URLs, this 
sounds reasonable.

And the git worktree stuff is new to me!

> On Oct 19, 2023, at 3:03 AM, Piotr P. Karwasz <piotr.karw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since now we have a fast release process It might happen (and it
> already did) that the voting periods for releases will not be
> disjoint.
> 
> That is why I would like to introduce a convention on the procedure to
> stage websites and Nexus repositories.
> 
> For websites I would propose:
> 
> 1. Every Git code repository uses a different staging domain name.
> E.g. `logging-log4j2` would set:
> 
> staging:
>  profile: log4j2
> 
> which will result in a https://logging-log4j2.staged.apache.org URI.
> For the `logging-log4j-site` website repo this will also entail that
> it will have multiple staging branches.
> 2. The `asf-staging` should not be protected. Before staging a website
> the Release Manager would perform:
> 
> git reset --hard origin/asf-site
> git push -f
> 
> hence ensuring that moving changes from the staging branch to
> `asf-site` will be usually a fast-forward and a simple cherry-pick
> `origin/asf-site..asf-staging` at worst.
> 
> For the staging Nexus repo I would propose using a comment to close
> the repo in the format:
> 
> `<code-repo-name>` version `<version_number>` RC1
> 
> For example Volkan used "`logging-parent` version `10.2.0` RC`" on the
> 1204 repo and we can easily guess what that repo contains. ;-)
> 
> Piotr
> 
> PS: Maybe we could drop the `*-site` Git repositories except
> `logging-site` and move their content to an `asf-site/asf-staging`
> branch of the corresponding code repo.

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