Morning, it's the current practice to tag releases publicly two days before release and then do the final QA phase. Could we please stop that?
If there's a mistake that needs to be fixed and that's detected within these two days, a re-tag needs to happen. If the old tag is deleted and a new modified tag is published, all cloned Git repositories that already received the old tag will keep the old tag and never receive the new tag unless the old tag is manually removed first. That's problematic. If there won't be a re-tag but a new tag name instead, there's no reason to not see the tagging as release instead of the release announcement two days later. If tags are necessary for the final QA phase and the QA phase should happen before release, then these tags shouldn't be public, but in a private repository instead. If tags aren't necessary, then the QA phase can use a different tag or just a commit reference and the release announcement can happen directly after the tagging. Regards, Niklas
