Re: Stats on Xen tarball downloads

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi George,

On 21/02/2024 02:55, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 6:38 PM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 19.02.2024 11:31, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:01:54PM +0800, George Dunlap wrote:
> > > > One of the questions we had with respect to changing our release
> > > > practice (for instance, making the process more light-weight so that
> > > > we could do a point release after every XSA) was, "How many people are
> > > > actually using the tarballs?"
> > > What would this more lightweight process involve from a downstream
> > > PoV?  IOW: in what would the contents of the tarball change compared
> > > to the current releases?
> >  From all prior discussion my conclusion was "no tarball at all".
> Or at very least, the tarball would be a simple `git archive` of a
> release tag.   Right now the tarball creation has a number of
> annoyingly manual parts about it.
At the moment we have the following steps:

1) Checkout tag
2) Create the tarball
3) Check the source tarball can build
4) Sign the tarball
5) Upload it

I managed to script it so I have only two commands to execute (mostly 
because I build and sign on a different host).
AFAIU, your command 'git archive' will only replace 2. Am I correct? If 
so, it is not entirely clear how your proposal is going to make it better.
Cheers,

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Julien Grall