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Suspicious wmf tags on mediawiki/core.git repo
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A lot of wmf tags have been added to the mediawiki/core.git repository. I don't think we need tags for the wmf changes since we use branches for wmf usage and do not release them.

Is there a use case for them or is that a mistake?

* [new tag]         1.24.0-rc.3 -> 1.24.0-rc.3
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf11 -> wmf/1.23wmf11
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf12 -> wmf/1.23wmf12
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf13 -> wmf/1.23wmf13
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf14 -> wmf/1.23wmf14
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf15 -> wmf/1.23wmf15
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf16 -> wmf/1.23wmf16
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf17 -> wmf/1.23wmf17
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf18 -> wmf/1.23wmf18
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf19 -> wmf/1.23wmf19
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf20 -> wmf/1.23wmf20
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf21 -> wmf/1.23wmf21
* [new tag]         wmf/1.23wmf22 -> wmf/1.23wmf22
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf1 -> wmf/1.24wmf1
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf10 -> wmf/1.24wmf10
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf11 -> wmf/1.24wmf11
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf12 -> wmf/1.24wmf12
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf14 -> wmf/1.24wmf14
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf15 -> wmf/1.24wmf15
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf16 -> wmf/1.24wmf16
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf17 -> wmf/1.24wmf17
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf18 -> wmf/1.24wmf18
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf19 -> wmf/1.24wmf19
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf2 -> wmf/1.24wmf2
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf20 -> wmf/1.24wmf20
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf21 -> wmf/1.24wmf21
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf22 -> wmf/1.24wmf22
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf3 -> wmf/1.24wmf3
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf4 -> wmf/1.24wmf4
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf5 -> wmf/1.24wmf5
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf6 -> wmf/1.24wmf6
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf7 -> wmf/1.24wmf7
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf8 -> wmf/1.24wmf8
* [new tag]         wmf/1.24wmf9 -> wmf/1.24wmf9

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hashar raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.
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Change 176053 had a related patch set uploaded (by Hashar):
wmf/* tags no more trigger mediawiki-core-release

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/176053

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hashar renamed this task from mediawiki/core to Suspicious wmf tags on mediawiki/core.git repo.Nov 26 2014, 8:48 PM

The branches were deleted and converted into tags. See T1288.

Change 176053 merged by jenkins-bot:
wmf/* tags no more trigger mediawiki-core-release

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/176053

Indeed, @Legoktm beat me to the link. We've done this several times before too as branches get super super old.

Ideally we shouldn't even use the same repo (use a fork) for deployment so these branches/tags never clutter the main repo.

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I think it is going to break a use case I have for CI. Will investigate. Thanks!