On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote:
The arguments in the other thread about immutable tags are laudable > but irrelevant. The tags in our source control system are not the > source of truth for our releases. The presence of the release on the > Apache mirrors is. The entire discussion around -rcX suffixes is to > avoid any confusion between the failed artifacts and the release > artifact. While a genuine concern, it's not worth all this soul > searching in my opinion. The real 1.1.1 comes from the mirrors. When > it's available on our mirrors then it also means that the 1.1.1 tag in > source control points to it (and always will). > I don't think this is true. It's important to have a concrete pointer to the source that produced the official release artefacts. I don't think it's good enough to just say "whatever is under dist/ is the release artefact, you can't rely on our Git to mean anything."
