On 5/30/08, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/05/2008, Luc Maisonobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dennis Lundberg a écrit : > > > > > Niall Pemberton wrote: > > >> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Dennis Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> wrote: > > >>> Rahul Akolkar wrote: <snip/> > > >>>> > > >>>> 4) Release plugin will rewrite the SCM URLs. I used one approach (of > > >>>> using the RC tag here), but not everyone liked it. > > >>> This is by design. How is this a problem for us? Is it a problem for > > >>> RCs? > > >> > > >> Pointing to the RC tag, rather than final tag for the release - e.g. > > >> scxml 0.8 > > >> > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/commons-scxml/commons-scxml/0.8/commons-scxml-0.8.pom > > >> > > > > > > Ah, I see. That's because the way we currently do releases isn't > > > directly supported by the release plugin. > > > > > > So we either change the way we do releases. Instead of voting on stuff > > > with an RC-tag in svn we'd vote on stuff with a release-tag. If the > > > release faila the release tag is removed and is later recreated when all > > > problems have been solved. If someone wants to have a special RC-tag, > > > for the sake of history, that can be accomplished easily with a command > > > line subversion remote copy. If we wanted to, we could turn that into a > > > Maven plugin and attach it to the release cycle. > > > > > > I don't really like this idea. All our discussions are public and the > > staging repository is publicly available. This means versions with the > > proper tag and proper signatures are available for download by anybody. > > If someone grabs one such version and the vote fails, we will end up > > with two different versions with the same tags, different contents and > > good signatures. I'm sure this will lead to confusion one day. > > > > > Voting would also need to include the revision number - probably not a > bad idea anyway, as tags are sometimes recreated. > <snap/>
The style I've used never touches a tag after it is created, and I intend to continue doing releases this way until a better option shows up. If tags are sometimes recreated etc., sure, that diminishes their intrinsic value and additional precautions may be necessary. -Rahul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
