[sakai-core-team] Automatically creating git tags

[Earle Nietzel]

There is a feature in github called Deploy Keys this is how we manage
processes that need to access to the github repo.

see https://developer.github.com/guides/managing-deploy-keys/



On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com>
wrote:

> We talked this morning on the release call about having Jenkins auto
> create a tag on every build so it's easier to find out what build is
> running on the nightlies and easier to reference a build on a date.
> Otherwise the syntax for checking out by date seems semi difficult to
> remember and not 100% agreed on what the answer is. [1]
>
> So I tried to setup a process (As a Post Action on the trunkbuild) on our
> Jenkins to automatically create git tags but Jenkins failed to publish it.
> I believe it needs credentials either in the form of private key or
> username password. Most likely if we did this we'd have to create a
> 'generic' account held by the foundation and give it access to that.
>
> There's also an option for "Certificate" (PKCS#12 certificate and
> password) but I don't 100% know where to find that?
>
> It feels like there should be some other way to publish but I don't see
> that in the options here for this plugin.
>
> Also at the moment this issue is broken in Jenkins (
> https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-26520) so there is no way to
> reference the timestamp for creating timestamp tags. Like for instance if
> we wanted a tag
>
> master/2014-02-26-15-00-00 or something. I'm guessing we'd have to go all
> the way out to the minute since we could potentially build multiple times
> an hour? In any case that's impossible and it only allows for the build
> number (master/116).
>
> Anyway, it seems like a great process but there are a few hurdles at the
> moment.
>
> [1] http://blog.endpoint.com/2014/05/git-checkout-at-specific-date.html
>
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