Re: Proposal : tagging and upload in svn
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:32:16PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> "Sylvain LE GALL" <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Well there is quite a bit of activity on svn. Well, i think it should be
> > good to have a clear policy on tagging files for upload.
> >
> >>From recent upload, i think we should follow this step :
> > - build and upload the package
> > - wait for the official accept of this package in the queue ( ie a
> > message saying that all files are present )
> > - tagging the uploaded version :
> > svn copy .../packages/XXX/trunk .../packages/XXX/tags/YYY
> > where XXX is the package and YYY the version that has been accepted.
> >
> > It introduce the problem, of not being able to commit during the wait
> > for the official notice... But it is only a matter of 1 or 2 days, i
> > think.
> >
> > Have you any comments on this ?
>
> Looks OK.
>
OK.
> BTW, I'd like to add one comment: I think commiting the upstream
> tarball in the SVN repo is silly. I know, I've already said so
> in the past and I still stand, because it doesn't add any historical
> benefit to the repository (every tarball has a different name).
>
> So, I'd propose that we move those tarballs to a dedicated
> download location: alioth provides an Anonymous FTP location
> which could be use for that purpose. We could also use
> the space dedicated to the web stuff.
>
Humm...
I prefer to keep it this way : as a personnal matter of fact, i like to
keep things, which are tight, together... Ie debian/ is nothing without
tarball, tarball is nothing to Debian without debian/...
It is only a personnal taste.
Kind regard
Sylvain LE GALL
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