# Tagging releases? Useful or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** Build-Test-Release\ **Created:** [September 16, 2020, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/tagging-releases-useful-or-not/3243 "2020-09-16T11:39:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![regis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/regis/32/2640_2.png) [@regis](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/regis)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/tagging-releases-useful-or-not/3243/14 "2020-09-30T15:00:02Z")
> [@sambapete](#): > > Will we still have a tag or branch in order to do a rebase of our fork before testing anything ? Shall we assume it will always be open-release/xxx.master even before it is released as open-release/xxx.1 ? Before the creation of open-release/xxx.1, we will have to run our tests on the master branch, and we will no longer create alpha tags. This is what we agreed on in the BTR meeting, right? > [@sambapete](#): > > Rebasing directly on master doesn’t give me a warm feeling. Especially if we don’t know at what point Koa starts. Yes, me neither, which is why I’d like to keep having tags, and manually apply security patches on top of the tag that I work on. > [@nedbat](#): > > Is there a logic to the two-month cadence? Why not one month? (I’m not saying one month would be better, just trying to understand.) Well, sort of. A two-month cadence would give us three tags, which would be consistent with what we have right now. Also, I’d be willing to bet that sometimes one month goes by without modification to the release master branch, whereas this does not happen over two month periods. I’m not saying either that two months is the best cadence… Less frequent tags would be too infrequent to my taste, but I don’t have anything against more frequent tags. > [@feanil](#): > > Would the 2-month cadence also include security fixes? Would those still go on top of master but not necessarily get tagged? Security fixes would immediately go to the release master branch, which is the one that is installed with the native installation, but they would only get tagged every two months. People working with tags would have to manually pull the security patches. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/tagging-releases-useful-or-not/3243)._