[tor-bugs] #9425 [BridgeDB]: Create and document a better BridgeDB (re)deployment strategy

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#9425: Create and document a better BridgeDB (re)deployment strategy
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 Reporter:  isis        |          Owner:  isis
     Type:  task        |         Status:  new 
 Priority:  normal      |      Milestone:      
Component:  BridgeDB    |        Version:      
 Keywords:  deploy,doc  |         Parent:      
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 BridgeDB's current deployment strategy is a little bit crazy.

 It would be nice to have automatic deployments, i.e. if a signed git tag
 of a version number is pushed, and that tag is signed by one of a specific
 set of keys, it automatically redeploys itself. This might be a tiny bit
 tricky to set up, and I'm not sure what the opinions of phobos, arma,
 weasel, et al. are on this.

 For the present, I propose the following:

  1) '''Versioning''': Using [https://github.com/warner/python-
 versioneer?source=cc versioneer] to automatically create version strings
 from git tags, and if the current deployment is not directly from a tag,
 then it automatically creates the version string from the most recent tag
 + short commit ID.

  2) '''Patch Management''': I also propose that some sort of patch
 management system be used for applying tpo-specific infrastructure
 changes, like changing the install path, bound IP addrs/ports in the
 bridgedb.conf file, etc. I've used quilt and it works well; if someone
 knows of something that is better than quilt for some reason, let me know.
 Otherwise, I would go with using quilt in a patches/ directory that is a
 separate git repository.

  3) '''Cleanup''': There are a lot of files/directories lying around
 ponticum.tpo, including, iirc, three copies of bridgedb.git. Some of these
 files appear to not be used anymore, others I have no idea if they
 are/were used for deployment, or are used for some metrics tasks, or what.

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