In order to mark our releases, I'd like to tag my extension BlueSpice in git. However, I get a permission error when doing
git push --tags
In my times as release manager, I could push the release tags to core this way. I probably had different permissions in core compared to my extensino repository.
I could not find any hint how to get the correct permission set. So if anyone could help me, I'd be very happy. And I will document the process on mw.o
Any idea where exactly to document this?
Maybe https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Advanced_usage#Committing_to_non_master ?
Good idea. My main problem is, though, that I don't know how to tag extensions or better, how to get the permissions. Whom could I ask?
I wholeheartedly support the tagging of releases. I think everyone should have permission to push tags to the same repos they have the ability to push to in general.
Sure. Add it to mediawiki/* ACL and it'll inherit. Should be already...wonder why it's not :)
Change 203388 had a related patch set uploaded (by MarkAHershberger):
Don't drop the page count information for this release, push to 1.26
I believe that it was possible to tag extensions in the past. Think one had to be the repo owner, but I am not absolutely sure. However, it should be possible to tag extensions.
Just tried again. It works in mediawiki/packages/WPI. However, I tried to push tags in mediawiki/extensions/BlueSpiceFoundation and
mediawiki/skins/BlueSpiceSkin. Any idea why this is different? I am project owner in both cases and have (at least not intenionally) changed any ACLs. WPI is way older than BlueSpice and comes from svn days. Is there a way I can see the ACLs in order to compare them?
OK, I remove the rules in BlueSpiceFoundation (so I should inherit everything). Still no success. How long does it take for the changes to become effective?
With the help of @cicalese, I found the reason it didn't work: you have to use the ssh url instead of the https one. So when I changed my origin repo from
[remote "origin"]
url = https://mglaser@gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/skins/BlueSpiceSkin
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*to
[remote "origin"]
url = ssh://mglaser@gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/mediawiki/skins/BlueSpiceSkin
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*in .git/config, it worked. This even worked in the BlueSpiceSkin repo with modified permissions.
Thanks a lot @cicalese and @demon for your help! I will now find a proper place in mw.o and document this.
This is now documented here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Advanced_usage#Tagging_an_extension_doesn.27t_work