I prefer to keep all tags used in a VOTE. It is simpler IMO that way to know what we voted on
Gary On Apr 3, 2016 2:48 AM, "sebb" <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 April 2016 at 10:35, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 2016-04-03, sebb wrote: > > > >> On 3 April 2016 at 06:01, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> On 2016-04-03, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > > > >>>> Could we delete the tag 1.11-RC1 now? > > > >>> AFAIR we keep all tags, even those for failed RC votes. > > > >> Sometimes tags are withdrawn before a vote is called; I think it's OK > >> to delete those, but it's best not to re-use the name. > >> So the first vote might be called on RC3 ... > > > > In this specific case we are talking about a tag for a failed vote - one > > I canceled. > > > >> For tags that have been used in a vote, we should certainly keep them > >> until the end of the vote as it makes diffing easier. > > > >> However I'm not sure that it is necessary to keep superseded tags once > >> the vote is complete. > >> As long as the tag URL and revision are in the vote e-mail, the > >> contents of such tags can still be reconstructed. > > > > Maybe, maybe not. I've decided to create the tag as a detached head. If > > I remove the tag a garbage collection may remove the commit. In this > > specific case it's no problem since the new tag for RC2 points at the > > same commit, but it's not true in general. > > Oops, I was forgetting that Compress now uses Git. > > So I agree that we probably should keep tags forever once they have > been used in a vote. > > In the case of SVN, the URL and revision are sufficient to reconstruct > the contents of the vote tag. > > > > > Stefan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
