On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> That sounds like a tag by another name. I hope that official ASF > releases could have corresponding persistent, unchanging Git tags; and > also that moments of significance (release votes) would be reflected > in the repository, rather than the mailing list archives. Note that it effectively mirrors what we did with Subversion. Every time we cut a new tag for the vote, we'd delete and recreate the tags/X.Y.Z directory. So the only way to find what we were voting for, without using the mailing list, was to look back through the history of that path. Admittedly, we'd loose the ability to automatically detect when a release branch was "cut" for the release by looking at Git. But the mailing list has that information. So is it really a big deal? The mailing list is a permanent feature of the project, and just as essential as Git.
