[REF] more often tagging or syncing with upstream

[Jiri Vanek]

On 03/22/2016 12:33 PM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> On 03/17/2016 06:25 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>
> Ping?

Ping ping? This would really help a lot!

See laready runnign review: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318988#c18

>
> FYI - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318988 I already started the wheels of destiny, and I'm pretty sure the not-reproducible tarball will be the reelase blocker :(
>
> J.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I would like to introduce the aarch32 project to Fedora arm repositories.
>>> To create clearly reproducible source tarball I need some anchor.
>>> I think you will agree that cloning "tip" do not cover the reproducibility.
>>> Also I think you will agree that keeping somewhere list of changset ids used
>>> for source tarball is
>>> not exactly convenient.
>>>
>>> So I would like to kindly ask you for favour and to tag your project forest
>>> once per day or at least
>>> once per week or just when things look little bit more stable then yesterday
>>> (eg tomorrow:) )
>>>
>>> We had chosen this approach for aarch64 releases [1] by prefixing by
>>> "aarch64" and incrementing
>>> build.  As upstream builds are not exactly continuous, it works fine. But of
>>> course feel free to
>>> chose whatever suits you.
>>>
>>> I think that having small fedora arm32 community in testing audience may be
>>> just benefit for project.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>
>>>    J.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/aarch64-port/jdk8u/
>>> 2 weeks ago     andrew     Added tag aarch64-jdk8u72-b16 for changeset
>>> 92af9369869fdefault tip
>>> 7 weeks ago     andrew     Added tag aarch64-jdk8u72-b15 for changeset
>>> 618f7e7b68f4aarch64-jdk8u72-b16
>>> 7 weeks ago     andrew     Merge jdk8u72-b15aarch64-jdk8u72-b15
>>> 2 months ago     asaha     Merge
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't think it needs to be as often as "once per day" as I doubt
>> the RPMs will be updated that frequently. It would however be good
>
> sure
>
>> to have a known good point to base Fedora RPMs on. This is beneficial
>> to the AArch32 project as well, as it is then clear what is being used
>> by these binaries out in the wild.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>