From: Stefan Näwe <stefan.naewe+git@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:15:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Tagging stable releases
Message-ID: <loom.20090415T161255-114@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <49E59BC9.5060906@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae <at> op5.se> writes:

> 
> At $dayjob, we have an update hook preventing tags without the "-beta$X"
> suffix from being pushed unless it points to an already tagged commit,
> so our workflow goes like this:
> 1 hack hack hack
> 2 beta-tag
> 3 buildbot builds beta package and sends it off to qa
> 4 qa responds with "ok to release"
> 5 we stable-tag the exact same version we shipped to qa
> 6 buildbot builds stable tag and copies it to "to-be-released" directory
> 7 release-manager pushes the release-button once changelogs and stuff
>   are in place

You've been talking about using git at your $dayjob quite often.
Any chance to share some of your 'infrastructure' (like hooks, e.g.) ?

Thanks

Stefan