[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #58214: Plugin authors should not be able to delete tags from SVN repository

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#58214: Plugin authors should not be able to delete tags from SVN repository
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 Reporter:  rkaiser0324   |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Plugins       |    Version:
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                |
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 On https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/how-to-use-
 subversion/#delete-old-versions it notes that plugin developers may choose
 to delete from the SVN repository old tagged versions.  I think that
 allowing plugin authors to rewrite history of production releases is a bad
 thing for WordPress to allow, much less suggest in the docs.  The reason
 is that you may be relying on those older versions in your WordPress
 installation so a clean build might break without warning.  E.g., if you
 are using wpackagist for dependency managementd, this can happen:
 https://github.com/outlandishideas/wpackagist/issues/497 .  Since tags
 represent actual production releases (per the first link) WordPress should
 not allow tags to be deleted from the repository (or any other history to
 be rewritten for that matter if that's a thing in SVN), going forward.

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