release tarballs with bundled git submodules

[klemensn]

Would you consider uploading static assets for releases which contain all sources, i.e. submodules?

Systems like OpenBSD ports have no network access during package building, so additional sources submodules need to be fetched and moved into place manually.

A single tarball from upstream containing all neccessary upstream code would simplify that process.

Alternatively, package maintainers like me could checkout git sources recursively for a release and vendor tarballs for operating system package infrastructure to use, but albeit simplifying the ports/package process, it also adds yet another layer of indirection and trust.

[mrts]

Thanks, uploading static assets for releases which contain all sources, including submodules makes sense. Do you know if there is a way to do this automatically in GitHub?

[klemensn]

Thanks, uploading static assets for releases which contain all sources, including submodules makes sense. Do you know if there is a way to do this automatically in GitHub?

I'm not familiar with GitHub, but expect it to be possible.
I'll read up on this.

[klemensn]

Looking at documentation and searching for prior art on this platform yielded #279, but I don't know how to test it.

[mrts]

Thanks a lot, looks nice! I'll discuss this with my colleague just in case. I'm 90% sure we will merge this.