Request: Restrict use of tags to strictly formal release versions

[mcandre]

🚀 The feature, motivation and pitch

I want to subscribe to PyTorch releases. However, the GitHub Atom feeds for both tags and releases have a lot of extraneous noise. It appears that PyTorch is using tags to manage non-release changes, which is generating this noise in feeds.

Alternatives

An Atom / RSS feed on the PyTorch blog, that lists only articles about new PyTorch version updates, would also suffice.

As a workaround, I am trying a third location, the PyPI release feed for the "torch" package:

https://pypi.org/rss/project/torch/releases.xml

Seems that the GitHub release feed data is corrupted somehow for this project.

Additional context

No response

cc @seemethere @malfet @pytorch/pytorch-dev-infra

[clee2000]

For context, we use tags so that we can trigger workflows on commits. This is a pretty old decision and I don't think it's going to be changed anytime soon, especially since workflow dispatches still require a tag or a branch. I think the only other alternative would be to use branches but I assume there was a reason we didn't do that

I don't have any experience with Atom/RSS feeds, but afaik we have a consistent naming scheme for release tags, so if possible you can filter based on that.

cc @atalman for the mangled pypi release feed?

[mcandre]

That's ah interesting.

GitHub Actions has fairly fine grained controls for triggering workflows on various git refs.

If more complex CI/CD logic is involved beyond what the stock system includes, perhaps a shell script could help.

Cheers, Andrew

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 4:59 PM clee2000 @.***> wrote:

For context, we use tags so that we can trigger workflows on commits. This is a pretty old decision and I don't think it's going to be changed anytime soon, especially since workflow dispatches still require a tag or a branch. I think the only other alternative would be to use branches but I assume there was a reason we didn't do that

I don't have any experience with Atom/RSS feeds, but afaik we have a consistent naming scheme for release tags, so if possible you can filter based on that.

cc @atalman https://github.com/atalman for the mangled pypi release feed?

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