Announcing our intention to move to goreleaser

[Julien Pivotto]

Dear developers community,

I'd like to announce here that we are planning to move away from our
build&release tool, promu, to use goreleaser.

https://goreleaser.com/

We will work on this in the close future, after which promu will become
un-maintained (and moved to the prometheus-junkyard github org).

We do not have an ETA yet.

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Julien Pivotto
@roidelapluie

[Julien Pivotto]

Hello,

My apologies to everyone: I have been too fast announcing that this is a
firm intention. This was only discussed between a small number of
individuals, and I have jumped too quickly to a conclusion.

This change is - as every technical discussion that crosses
repositories - to be discussed on this mailing list before a decision is
taken.

I have made a design document that explain a bit better the in's and the
out's:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16LOT2wK-jntlU-EFADfaEF3YbKH81U9Zl_PvSu4qVwo/edit?usp=sharing

In particular, I want to clarify that we are not committed to change at
any cost - it is not sure we will change. The road is still long.

Regards,

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Julien Pivotto
@roidelapluie

[Frederic Hemberger]

What would be a good repo to start comparing promu/goreleaser output? Maybe I can help with a proof of concept.