On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM Atieno Njira <pnj...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > This error was because I recreated the 2 tags i.e. the original tags deleted > and new ones with the exact names pointing to the exact commits created. The > reason for the update was to add missing GPG signature. Tags are never meant > to update (hence why fetching updated tags will by default reject the tags > unless you fetch with --force or do a local git tag -d) > > The prompt for doing it now, was creation of a tarball diff for 1.43.0-rc.0, > and that process led to a "tag not signed error", thus realizing it hasn't > been signed. > > We fixed this error by restoring the original tags.
Thank you for this post-mortem announcement Atieno. It can be scary to stand up and tell folks that a problem happened because of your actions. Learning to stay calm, think about how to get out of the bad situation, and keep communicating with folks during a crisis is an important part of working on public projects. This probably qualifies you for an "I broke Wikipedia... and then I fixed it!" sticker for your laptop. The important part of that is of course fixing things. MediaWiki is too easy to break to celebrate that aspect. ;) Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
