Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Monday 04 June 2012 01:26:01 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > It's not about hurting or not (that it does, see how Martin got confused
> > and  probably lost time wondering how something like that could be
> > happening).
> 
> Oh, and what Martin actually got confused by is a failure of processes on
> the KDE end: The Bugzilla entry for the new (pre)release should be created
> no later than the first "try" of tarballs. How else are we, the packagers,
> supposed to report bugs we find in the tarballs, if they're not of release-
> blocking importance? When you create the tarballs, the component should
> already be in place.
No, sorry, that doesn't make any sense. Why?
* the number of bugs reported by distro people compared to users is extremely 
low (less than 1 %)
* I cannot remember a bug reported by distro people between tagging and 
releasing
* for me it is important to be able to reference a git hash with a release. 
The git tags are only pushed *after* the release. In the state between tagging 
and release I am normally not aware what has been tagged, with the exception 
of 4.8.80 thanks to Albert publishing the shasums on the mailing list

So no, also in future I will create the version tag in bugzilla once there is 
a release and not when the release process got started.

Cheers
Martin
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