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Scripts for release artefacts to GitHub releases
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Can we fix the timestamps on the tags in `temurinXX-binaries? #125

Open sxa opened 1 year ago

sxa commented 1 year ago

The temurinXX-binaries releases have tags created for each release, but the date associated with that tag is the last time a file in the binaries repositories (Not an item in the release) was updated. At present that means it's from August 2022 when the README.md was last updated. This is undesirable and confusing.

From https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/pull/2729#issuecomment-1486850432:

It should be possible to fix this by using annotated tags, instead of lightweight git tags. Annotated tags (created using git -a) carry their own creation date, while lightweight tags are just a link to a specific commit, which carries the date.

We should look at whether we can test that and make it work to avoid the dates on the tags being out of sync with those on the releases.