[Zope3-dev] Re: faulty releases and pypi access [update]

[Jim Fulton]

On Sep 26, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 17:18, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> - Update changes.txt, adding a heading for the new # and date
>>
>> - Create a tag
>>
>> - check out or switch to the tag
>>
>> - Set the version in setup.py on the tag. Check it in.
>>
>> - Make the release from the tag.
>
> Changing tags is not that good. I'd rather check in a aversion number
> then. ;-)

This is exactly what we've been doing for Zope 3 releases -- for the  
same reason.  I think it is the one acceptable and reasonable change  
to a tag.  The benefit of forcing us to release from a tag is, imo,  
significant.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation