[Opensim-dev] Git tags (again)

[Borun (a.k.a. Boroondas Gupte)]

Heya all,

Borun here, almost complete outsider on this project, so correct me if I
make any wrong assumptions.

I guess the build tags are made by the continuous integration
infrastructure and that no significant maintenance is required to keep
the mechanism that creates them there in place. Thus, if the tags are a
burden to some (because there are so many of them) but useful to others,
why not simply have two public repositories, one with the build tags and
another without? (I'd keep the 'main', i.e. development repository clear
of the build tags and have the continuous build process sync (fetch) the
commits over to a 'build' repository (a clone of 'main') where it also
tags the commits it builds, instead of tagging them on the on the 'main'
repository as it seems to do today.)

That way, the 'conversion tool' comes practically for free, has a web
interface already familiar to those involved *and* is machine readable.

Tags of wider interest (e.g. to mark versions that are official
releases) would probably still be made on the 'main' repo and then
fetched to the 'build' repo.

Cheers,
B.
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