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

[Baiju M]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>  On 27 Sep 2007, at 13:47 , Stephan Richter wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 September 2007 07:18, Philipp von Weitershausen
> > wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Of course, an additional or other approach would be to implement a
> > tool that checks various things. I agree that the problems you
> > listed are solvable with doing the release from the tag, but there
> > are cases that are not caught:
> >
> > 1. In your last case, if bajium would have used "svn switch
> > --relocate" the file would still be around and the release would
> > work. I imagine that most people would use "svn switch" because
> > making another checkout is just a package management mess.
>
>  Why is making another checkout a package management mess? Go to /tmp
>  or ~/temp or whatever, get the checkout, do your release stuff and
>  delete it again. Is this so hard? Sorry, but I fail to see how this
>  is messy.
>
>  Also, regardless of what you imagine people do, if the process says
>  "get a new, fresh checkout" then this is what people should do. If
>  they use svn switch instead, then they're not following the process.
>  End of story.

Release from a fresh tag check out is always good.

<personal>
I have released eggs before and after my mistake.   After my mistake,
I created check list for my convenience here:
http://wiki.zope.org/zope3/BaijuMuthukadan
An now I am making release from tag checkouts.
</personal>

Regards,
Baiju M