On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 10:15:14AM -0700, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> This is just my opinion: we should have a quick "bump commit + tag"
> Jenkins job that pushes the Git tag live as soon as possible. In
> particular we should not wait for packages to be build + signed +
> published on download.ceph.com before pushing the bump commit + tag
> live.
> 
> Bumping and tagging in Git should take a minute or two, whereas
> building, signing, and rsync'ing all the packages for that tag takes
> hours. I think this time-intensive process causes the Git history to
> diverge for too long.
Thought:
- Tag or branch a candidate commit for going INTO the QE phase, say
  v12.2.3-rcX.
- Run QE on that tag.
- If QE passes entirely, create final tag at same commit as rc tag.

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