On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 07:56:39 -0400, "Ricardo Signes" <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021, at 3:41 AM, Andreas Koenig wrote: > > The release has been tagged with v5.33.9 but the tag is a > > lightweight tag, not an annotated one. This is what the release > > manager guide has to say about the tag: > > > > % grep 'git tag v' Porting/release_managers_guide.pod > > $ git tag v5.11.0 -m 'First release of the v5.11 series!' > > I'm not sure why we prefer an annotated tag, but consistency *is* > nice. > > We can forcibly replace that tag with a new one. Some remotes will > still have the old one, unless they delete and re-fetch, but I'm > inclined to think that there's no harm in doing this. > > Andreas? Anybody else? I see no added values in comments/annotations on release tags unless they actually have to add value in the description. As with the above example, it does not IMHO -- H.Merijn Brand https://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.33 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and Linux https://tux.nl/email.html http://qa.perl.org https://www.test-smoke.orgThread Previous | Thread Next