Gitlab tag 42.42.42

[Justin Cattle]

Hi Maria,


Thanks for the extra info, and glad it was genuine :)

FYI we noticed because we use the Gitlab RSS feed to receive updates on
release.

Thanks again. and thanks for Bird!


Cheers,
Just


On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 at 19:27, Maria Matejka <maria.matejka at nic.cz> wrote:

> 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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