On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 November 2011 18:34, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:29 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 14 November 2011 15:04, <ggreg...@apache.org> wrote: >>> > Author: ggregory >>> > Date: Mon Nov 14 15:04:32 2011 >>> > New Revision: 1201740 >>> > >>> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1201740&view=rev >>> > Log: >>> > Creating commons-codec-1.6-RC1 tag >>> >>> I think there was already an RC1 tag. >>> >>> Ideally, please don't recreate tags. >>> >> >> I thought we'd gone through this before and decided that it was OK to >> delete a tag when a vote is not called for that tag. > > It's fine to create and drop tags which won't ever be used for a vote. > > But tags that are used as RC tags should be immutable. > > It's better *never* to reuse an RC tag, as a recreated tag can still > cause confusion later on.
I'm not understanding the reasoning here. Where is the confusion in a recreated tag? It seems far more confusing for me to announce RC12 tomorrow for Collections and have everyone wonder where the previous 11 were. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
