Gitlab tag 42.42.42

[Maria Matejka]

Hello Justin,

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 05:22:09PM +0100, Justin Cattle wrote:

> Just FYI, someone has tagged the bird repo with a mystery 42.42.42 tag,
> which I suspect is not desired [ either accidental or malicious ? ].
> 
> https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/tags/v42.42.42

We are testing our CI automation around releases and we decided to push
a tag for these purposes. This tag was actually repeatedly deleted and
pushed again. Now it should be gone but please expect it go up and down
maybe once or twice again in the following several hours.

Unfortunately, cloning the project with all the settings and CI runners
is not an easy task.

We chose this tag as it is far far away from anything even remotely
possible to be released, and also the tagged commit and branch were
clearly marked as tests. Well, and I also hoped that nobody would
actually notice, yet the tag had to stay there for some time for the
checks to complete.

Sorry for all the fuss and thanks for the heads-up. Even though I would
notice an accidental or malicious tag very soon, it's always better to
get a ping than to let it fly.

Have a nice day! 
Maria

-- 
Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
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