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On 03/07/2023 01:40, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> Porters,
>
> I have pushed up the ceremonial hunk of commits to bump us to v5.ODD.0
> and, near as I can tell, v5.39.0 is ready to receive your commits.  We
> will not be making a same-day release of v5.39.0 this year, as we got
> the idea that this was not considered very useful.  We can still do so
> if needed, but for now: it's open!

Grand!
Can we also update the tag to 'v5.39.0' so `git describe` will show the
new version? Less confusion with the smoke reports.

Thanks,

-- Abe Timmerman.

On 7/3/23 07:21, Abe Timmerman via perl5-porters wrote:
> On 03/07/2023 01:40, Ricardo Signes wrote:
>> Porters,
>>
>> I have pushed up the ceremonial hunk of commits to bump us to v5.ODD.0
>> and, near as I can tell, v5.39.0 is ready to receive your commits.  We
>> will not be making a same-day release of v5.39.0 this year, as we got
>> the idea that this was not considered very useful.  We can still do so
>> if needed, but for now: it's open!
>
> Grand!
> Can we also update the tag to 'v5.39.0' so `git describe` will show the
> new version? Less confusion with the smoke reports.
>

I tried doing this by creating a tag at an appropriate commit but
apparently don't have permissions to push.

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$ git tag -a v5.39.0 -m "Begin development of 5.39 series"
d1640138a17eaa7594a3226e0b33cb42c3d511a4

$ git push --tags origin blead
Enumerating objects: 1, done.
Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
Writing objects: 100% (1/1), 178 bytes | 178.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
remote: error: GH006: Protected tag update failed for refs/tags/v5.39.0.
remote: error: You're not authorized to create a tag
To github.com:Perl/perl5.git
! [remote rejected] v5.39.0 -> v5.39.0 (protected tag hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'github.com:Perl/perl5.git'
#####

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