Proposal: Consistent names for the release artifacts

[Mihai Niță Ⓤ]

Proposed discussion date: the July 24 TC meeting

TLDR: the artifacts we publish to GitHub use inconsistent conventions.

* Some use 77.1 (dot), some 77_1 (underscore), one uses 77-1 (minus)

* For release candidate we use 77.1rc, 77_1rc but 77-1-rc (an extra minus)

* Some artifacts are digitally signed (a matching .asc file), some are not

* Checksums are in some cases in a matching .md5 file (one per artifact),

and in some cases one text file with checksums for several artifacts.

* The checksums are in some cases md5, and in some cases sha.

I propose a cleanup to use the same conventions for all artifacts.

This makes releasing easier (use the same code to generate the version part, for example).

And easier for our users, after a one time inconvenience, if they use scripts to download artifacts.

(you know where a checksum is for one artifact, you know for all, and can use the same script to download and check the artifacts).

Document shared here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CtPdH8E-UoEYP1IXGsPiyNATdyDpJeeCsgv6yFK2PrA/

Also: I am happy to take this, if approved.

Thank you,

Mihai

[Rich Gillam]

I read the proposal just now, and I think everything you’re proposing sounds sensible.

—Rich

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