Hi Ate! It's quite natural that many other projects just point to DeltaSpike. DS was in 2011 amongst the very first projects using GIT at the ASF.
One of the results of this effort (together with the CouchDB community) was following document http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Git_At_Apache_Guide Note the paragraph "Tagging during a VOTE": "Please note that the only officially result of an ASF release is the source tarball! These zipped and signed sources are also the only thing a VOTE is upon. All other artifacts produced during a build are just nice to have goodies which are no official ASF products. This includes the TAG on any SCM hosted at the ASF or elsewhere" This (and many other GIT questions) also got heavily discussed at the 2014 ApacheConEU. Search the private repos for "[DISCUSS] sandbox GIT repo for each of our projects using GIT". And you will find many other GIT discussions in that timeframe around Mid 2012 and Nov/Dec 2014. There have been dozen other times when this did pop up, e.g. search "Immediate change to git". And it also just recently (August 2016) got discussed on this very list here. See the "Ease of release process and exit criteria" thread. But I agree it might be time to collect all these informations together and write an incubator compendium for it. LieGrue, strub > On Monday, 26 September 2016, 22:09, Ate Douma <a...@douma.nu> wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > On 2016-09-26 17:22, Mark Struberg wrote: >> 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 suggestion 'this' is established practice in the ASF made me wonder. > So I tried to lookup some reference, background and/or discussion around it. > But I have not been able to find anything! > Of the above listed projects, only DeltaSpike actually has a page describing > *what* to do, written by you, but otherwise: nothing AFAICT. > I also briefly scanned the members and board lists, seeing if I somehow > missed a > crucial discussion about this in the last several years. > But nothing jumped out to me what might be related. > > I haven't been really actively involved (much) in ASF projects using git > so far, so it didn't really matter much to me yet until now. > And I probably didn't try hard enough researching it either. > > But if this really is an established practice, then at least it should be easy > to find and properly described, somewhere. Especially as some incubator guide. > So where is or was this discussed, do you have some pointers? > > Thanks, Ate > > >> >> 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 > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
