On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 04:25:16PM -0500, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: > I am not married to package-ganglia-release so anything that > helps us long term is a win.
I think the problems are not with the tools but with the process and as was spelled out on the original list of bulletpoints. agree though that simplifying tools goes also together with making the process simpler and less prone to failures. > >> On Sat, 10 Mar 2012, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >>> a) the tag doesn't cover the ganglia-web stuff this is not correct, but made complicated by the fact that the tags are not static, not standard (3.3.2-3 might had been better called 3.3.2.3 IMHO), and that they are not matching : $ git describe --tags 3.3.2 $ cd web/ $ git describe --tags 3.3.2-1 > >>> b) the tag is created before testing (which is not necessary when using > >>> git, you can tag after you test, because a tag is just a checksum of > >>> what you tested) more importantly, you could end up pushing that tag by mistake, and end up changing it later (something that wouldn't work since you can't force every clone to delete and reaquire that tag). if enforcing having a tag is going to be used in this way, will be better to stick to names like 3.3.2pre1 or use the old svn standard of not updating the main version after it has been tested and release prereleases with versions like 3.1.1.x (where x used to be the svn revision, but now would have to be a monotonically increasing number) I'd prefer using the 'pre' notation which is I submitted 74ddc9e so hopefully it will be more difficult to have a release like 3.3.1 where the version of the package (and associated libraries) was wrong. the most important part of this being of course, that it is possible to do more coordinated and exhaustive testing before release. Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
