just to confirm, 'master' is no longer protected?
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Infa recently announced on infrastructure@ that, following direction from
> the Board, ASF git is now allowing force pushes and branch/tag deletion
> again. In accordance with the guidance given by the Board there are some
> policy changes you should be aware of:
>
> - First, if a forced commit is pushed, the subsequent commit email to
> commits@ will contain '[Forced Update!]' in the subject line. The hope
> here is that it draws extra attention to the situation for a project
> community tobe aware, and take appropriate action if needed.
>
> - Second, the 'protected' Git ref-space is now refs/tags/rel/* . Any
> tags under rel/, can be assured to carry the complete immutable commit
> history which lead up to the commit. This provides the provenance that
> the
> ASF needs for releases. Otherwise projects can mold their repository ref
> structure any way they see fit. When a release vote is successful part
> of
> the release process should include tagging the voted upon commit SHA
> under
> rel/ to make it indelible. ('# git tag rel/v15.4.2 ' or something
> similar.)
>
> Let's incorporate the second point into our release process immediately. We
> can also go back and add corresponding tags in refs/tags/rel/ for all of
> our past releases. Unless there are any objections I will take care of this
> housekeeping later this week.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> - Andy
>
> Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein
> (via Tom White)
>
--
Sean
