Stian, this is established practice in the ASF since the very early days of playing with GIT. It is used e.g. in the following TLPs: TomEE DeltaSpike Johnzon CouchDB Maven and many, many more!
It also got discussed on members, infra and even board lists. The nice thing about GIT is that it absolutely doesn't matter where I push the commit to as long as the sha1 of the commit later pushed to the ASF repo is the same. Regarding 'pushing something different'. I trust an ASF member that he doesn't do that. Plus we have the sha as explained before. Regarding 'not getting pushed at all': This would get catched pretty quickly as we would miss the version update ;) Also bear in mind that ASF projects do NOT vote on the tags nor branches - we solely vote on the release source distributable! > branches are there to be created and removed again Branches in GIT _cannot_ get removed from any downstream repo! That's the whole point. And if you do RCs, then you actually would have to later do a NEW vote again with the 'RC' removed from the version. But who guarantees that the source tarball is the same now? What if someone changed the source in the meantime? You see, it also has flaws. > Perhaps "git tag --sign" so you get a PGP-signed tag commit > would be a good idea? Agree, would be a good idea! It happens that I wrote the Maven GIT integration somewhen in the 2000s... ;) We don't have the tagging feature yet. Could you please file a ticket against Maven SCM? txs and LieGrue, strub > On Monday, 26 September 2016, 16:34, Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> > wrote: > > On 26 September 2016 at 14:34, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de.invalid> > wrote: >> We *never* push commits for in-progress votes to hte ASF repos when we use > GIT! >> The reason is that we cannot get rid of those afterwards! Of course we can > delete the branch/tag/commit from the ASF repo, but we cannot delete them > from > all the hundreds downstream repos which almost immediately pull those > changes... >> >> You can think of pushing this to a private (but PMC owned!) github repo as > kind of parallel to the Maven 'staging' process. > > Of course it is up to each project what particular release/tag > practice they want to follow. Many projects do this classically even > with git, e.g. using branches or tags like 0.4-RC1 - see for instance: > > https://lists.apache.org/list.html?d...@jena.apache.org:lte=10M:VOTE > > Some communities like Apache Commons even keep around all RC tags; > then archived emails around failed RCs still have valid links - e.g. > https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/releases > > I wouldn't personally see a problem with a RC branch showing up in > forked repositories - branches are there to be created and removed > again - if downstream want to keep them for archival purposes that's > their choice - just like they can keep the commit emails. > > > But if that's not your project's cup of tea, then I guess just a > commit IDs and hashes in the email should work, no matter where the > commit 'is' - in git the commit is hashed and it's not forgotten > after > the vote is passed. > > Perhaps "git tag --sign" so you get a PGP-signed tag commit would be a > good idea? > > > Without the commit ID or hashes in the email - then particularly for > mutable release candidates tags hosted in third-party repositories, we > don't have a record over exactly what was voted on and the commiter > could easily by mistake push the 'wrong' RC commits or dists without > anyone being able to notice or check later. In fact, this very vote > shows two different commit IDs which this time luckily had the same > content. > > Many projects posts RCs on https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/ - > which is SVN-based - here the revision number and log is sufficient - > we assume the ASF-hosted SVN repository to be 'trusted'. A closed > Nexus repository is similarly tracked and immutable. > > > > > > -- > Stian Soiland-Reyes > http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
