Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-commons-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-commons-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28BD418E54 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2016 09:35:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 50761 invoked by uid 500); 3 Apr 2016 09:35:41 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-commons-dev-archive@commons.apache.org Received: (qmail 50616 invoked by uid 500); 3 Apr 2016 09:35:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@commons.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "Commons Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list dev@commons.apache.org Received: (qmail 50605 invoked by uid 99); 3 Apr 2016 09:35:41 -0000 Received: from mail-relay.apache.org (HELO mail-relay.apache.org) (140.211.11.15) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 03 Apr 2016 09:35:41 +0000 Received: from v45346.1blu.de (v45346.1blu.de [178.254.23.72]) by mail-relay.apache.org (ASF Mail Server at mail-relay.apache.org) with ESMTPSA id 05BE91A00E4 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2016 09:35:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by v45346.1blu.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD0F736A277B; Sun, 3 Apr 2016 11:35:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Bodewig To: Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Compress 1.11 Based on RC2 References: <871t6nhkyi.fsf@v45346.1blu.de> <878u0vuvzf.fsf@v45346.1blu.de> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 11:35:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: (sebb's message of "Sun, 3 Apr 2016 10:30:00 +0100") Message-ID: <8737r3591y.fsf@v45346.1blu.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain On 2016-04-03, sebb wrote: > On 3 April 2016 at 06:01, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> On 2016-04-03, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: >>> Could we delete the tag 1.11-RC1 now? >> AFAIR we keep all tags, even those for failed RC votes. > Sometimes tags are withdrawn before a vote is called; I think it's OK > to delete those, but it's best not to re-use the name. > So the first vote might be called on RC3 ... In this specific case we are talking about a tag for a failed vote - one I canceled. > For tags that have been used in a vote, we should certainly keep them > until the end of the vote as it makes diffing easier. > However I'm not sure that it is necessary to keep superseded tags once > the vote is complete. > As long as the tag URL and revision are in the vote e-mail, the > contents of such tags can still be reconstructed. Maybe, maybe not. I've decided to create the tag as a detached head. If I remove the tag a garbage collection may remove the commit. In this specific case it's no problem since the new tag for RC2 points at the same commit, but it's not true in general. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@commons.apache.org