RFE: Tag releases on github

[ignatenkobrain]

It would be cool if you would make commit for each release automation does (basically changes to galaxy.yml) and tag it so that mere people that want to package collection could easily do it from github.

[ktdreyer]

Thanks for this suggestion. I'm wondering about the use-case. Can you say more about how users would make use of this?

I would like to avoid publishing hundreds of Git tags, essentially tagging every time we update master. That's a lot of extra refs for every Git client to fetch over time.

Can you use the output from git rev-list --count $BASE_COMMIT..HEAD like we do for ./build-collection and .copr/Makefile ?

[ignatenkobrain]

Not automatically. The context here is the packaging this collection in Fedora repositories which means no access to the internet.

[ktdreyer]

Oh ok. In that case, can you use the Galaxy tarballs that we upload?

For example: https://galaxy.ansible.com/download/ktdreyer-koji_ansible-0.0.367.tar.gz

See Source0 in the .spec file template for Copr.

[ignatenkobrain]

@ktdreyer no, they are not enough...

[ktdreyer]

Would you please say what they are missing?

[ignatenkobrain]

@ktdreyer the FILES.json and everything else is already prepared on your machine, so for instance if we would like to apply any patch (that would not be possible to upstream so that we have to keep it downstream) would require some tricky modifications to the jsons instead of just running ansible-galaxy collection build.

Also github has very nice feature that it notifies about tags/releases so (in case of downstream) we would subscribe and get those notifications. I'm not aware of anything like that from ansible galaxy.

[ktdreyer]

Thanks for explaining.

GitHub prepares FILES.json automatically (GitHub Actions runs the build-collection script.) I wonder if there's a way to do that in the RPM so it's easier to patch. It would be nice to just run ansible-galaxy collection build like you mention.

For version monitoring, there is a JSON API at https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v2/collections/ktdreyer/koji_ansible/ . I've added it to https://release-monitoring.org/project/211000/

[ignatenkobrain]

Well, if I download archive from github I can run ansivlegalaxy build myself :)