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

[Martijn Faassen]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> On 27 Sep 2007, at 13:07 , Martijn Faassen wrote:
[snip]
>> Let's focus on the reasons for each step and keep the discussion at
>> that level, please? I think it's useful if people ask "is that really
>> necessary?" for steps in the release process. Just weigh the pros and
>> cons. I'd like to understand more about the trouble Philipp ran into
>> doing releases from the original checkout and then tagging.
> 
> I've summarized this in another thread [1], but I'll be happy to 
> elaborate here:
[snip]
> These are four separate cases where I've actually witnessed myself or 
> other people mess up. We're forgetful, we can't do anything about that. 
> We can, however, force us to catch our mistakes. I believe that if we 
> made everybody create the tarballs from the tag, it would improve the 
> situation a lot.
> 
> I'm beginning to see a consensus that we should make it impossible to 
> create distributions from the trunk or a release branch.

Thanks, very clear. You convinced me. Even if distutils would start 
cleaning up after itself the other issues still stand and won't be going 
away.

Regards,

Martijn