Identify a server to host erfa release tarballs about erfa

[astrofrog]

Sorry, just realized there was an issue for this. One option is GitHub releases (https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software), and another option is just to have GitHub pages set up for ERFA and include the tarball in the repository - not ideal, but it'll take a while to reach the 300+Mb limit!

[astrofrog]

Alternatively, could STScI host the page + tarball? It would give it some kind of official endorsement too.

[timj]

@astrofrog The Starlink repository on github is nearly 1 GB...

[eteq]

I didn't know about github releases and it's ability to store tarballs - thanks for mentioning that, @astrofrog! I'm inclined to say we try that, and see how it works for 1.0, because it looks very easy to use. If it has some major issues, we can always switch to STScI or Starlink or whatever else.

Personally, I think we do not want a separate "page" at least for now. As long as we keep the README relatively clean, I think the github front page serves as a good front page for a dev-focused library like this.

[olebole]

For me, releases on github are fine, as well as the STScI. However, Debian has an automated way to detect if there is a new version available, for this it would be best to have a canonical named tar file (erfa-1.0.0.tar.gz) which resides in a browseable directory.

[sergiopasra]

Mostly the same applies for Fedora

[eteq]

Alright, I think I've figured out a solution using github releases (as suggested by @astrofrog) that will satisfy these needs. It was easiest to do this by example, so I've pushed up some commits and done a "pre-release" showing what I have in mind.

You can look at https://github.com/liberfa/erfa/blob/master/RELEASE.rst to see the procedure I followed to produce the release at https://github.com/liberfa/erfa/releases/tag/v0.0.1 . That includes a tarball that is the actual release (https://github.com/liberfa/erfa/releases/download/v0.0.1/erfa-0.0.1.tar.gz). I also Added a github page for the erfa, which I made to look like a browseable directory: http://liberfa.github.io/erfa/ will that work for Debian and Fedora, @olebole and @sergiopasra ? If so, then I'll go ahead and do an actual v1.0.0 release.

[olebole]

Github is fine for me & the link works well. Thank you. I can however live with the github.io page as well as with the giohub.com one (just found out how to write the corresponding download pattern).

[sergiopasra]

Everything is working fine for me.

[astrofrog]

👍

[eteq]

Alright, this sounds good. Once #12 is resolved I will do a v1.0.0 release and we can close this issue.

[eteq]

Alright, #12 has been resolved, and I went ahead and did the v1.0.0 release to https://github.com/liberfa/erfa/releases/tag/v1.0.0 (tarball at https://github.com/liberfa/erfa/releases/download/v1.0.0/erfa-1.0.0.tar.gz), so I'll close this.