On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote:

> Also creating annotated tags locally and pushing them to github creates
> releases automatically, attaching the annotated tag’s commit message by
> default.
>
> If the annotated tag is also gpg signed, that seems like a very convenient
> way to do trusted releases, while still able to move off github if needed.
>
> Thank you. I need to learn what the annotated tags are.

uto, 28. stu 2017. u 09:22 David Chisnall <[email protected]> napisao je:
>
>> On 27 Nov 2017, at 22:58, Sergii Stoian <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi David,
>> >
>> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 7:57 PM, David Chisnall <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > This looks very nice, but a few comments:
>> >
>> > - Apple still owns the NeXT trademark, so be careful about using NEXT
>> in the name.
>> >
>> > I think it is exactly the "NeXT" right? Not "Next" or "NEXT”.
>>
>> I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice:
>>
>> Trademark law depends a lot on the notion of ‘passing off’, i.e. using a
>> variation of a trademark in such a way that it may cause confusion.  For
>> example, Mr MacDonald’s Restaurant may or may not infringe the McDonald’s
>> trademark, but if it uses a big yellow M as its logo (even in a different
>> typeface) then it probably will.
>>
>> Apple is generally quite aggressive about defending trademarks, so it’s
>> probably better not to risk it - even if you’re right, the cost of
>> defending an infringement suit in the US may run to millions of dollars.
>>
>> > - NeXT used the NX prefix (NS = NeXT + Sun, NX = NeXT), so using it as
>> your prefix is confusing.
>> >
>> > Yes I know that. Do you think it's a copyright issue?
>>
>> It’s not a copyright issue (Google vs Oracle notwithstanding), it’s a
>> confusion issue.  I saw the headers and thought they were implementations
>> of pre-OpenStep NeXT classes, but then I looked more closely and they don’t
>> appear to be.
>>
>> > - Please don’t put big RPMs in the repo!  It adds overhead to anyone
>> who clones it, and GitHub has a perfectly adequate Downloads facility for
>> hosting these.
>> >
>> > - It would be easier to package (and to collaborate) if these were
>> separate GitHub repos.
>> > I've switched to the github a couple of weeks ago and don't know all of
>> the github features. Can you help me to place RPMs outside of code on
>> github?
>>
>> Sure.  If you click on the ‘0 releases’ line at the top of the page,
>> you’ll got to a page that has a ‘draft a new release’ button.  From here,
>> you can generate a release associated with a tag and upload any binary
>> versions (e.g. the RPMs).
>>
>> Note that this will work better if you split the repo into different
>> projects, because then it’s easy to do the releases independently.
>>
>> This also helps packagers for other systems.  For example, on FreeBSD if
>> I am the maintainer of a a port then portscout will send me an email if
>> there’s a new release automatically.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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