[Kde-scm-interest] Project release tags on Gitorious

[Ian Monroe]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> wrote:
> On 11/29/2009 09:07 PM, Ian Monroe wrote:
>> I don't think its a blocker though. I do see it as mildly annoying to
>> have to ping a sysadmin with a git hash and version number every time
>> you want to tag. However I don't really see it a social disruption of
>> our meritocratic order though. :)
>
> Slippery slope and such :/. Of course nobody has ill
> intentions here, but once you close a door it's much
> harder to open again, due to inertia etc. And then
> the culture subtly changes before you know it. So I
> feel it's pretty important on some level.

Nah I really think the job of tagging will be yet another
administrative function of sysadmin and won't create a centralization
of who gets to decide when to tag. Obviously extragear folks decide
when to tag themselves; 'slippery slope' doesn't really apply, and I
always find that analogy to be very unuseful anyways.

Also I don't really see if it as something that should block a
release. Its not a big deal if the git hash that is going to be tagged
isn't actually tagged for a couple of days (which is the worst case).

Ian