I have added the ability to update a pre-existing annotated tag to github3.py. After a bunch of fiddling around trying to unwind the requests mock[ing] wrappers, as an attempt to properly unit test a top level method that results in multiple REST calls (which none of the existing unit tests seems to do), I gave up and opened PRs upstream:

1. https://github.com/sigmavirus24/github3.py/pull/724
2. https://github.com/sigmavirus24/github3.py/pull/725 (based on 724, as I think that is more likely to be accepted upstream as-is)

sqre-codekit will need a minor update to use the tag moving feature.

Pushed to pypi as https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqre-codekit-github3.py

I manually "tested" the new --force-tag flag github-tag-version by running it against the production repos.

github-tag-version --org 'lsst' --team 'Data Management' --email 'sqre-admin@lists.lsst.org' --tagger 'sqreadmin' --debug "w.2017.30" "b2974" --force-tag

[master] ~/github/afw $ git fetch --all --tags --prune

Fetching origin

remote: Counting objects: 18, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.

remote: Total 18 (delta 11), reused 18 (delta 11), pack-reused 0

Unpacking objects: 100% (18/18), done.

From github.com:lsst/afw

 * [new branch]          tickets/DM-11332 -> origin/tickets/DM-11332

 t [tag update]          w.2017.30        -> w.2017.30

[master] ~/github/afw $ git show-ref -d w.2017.30

9099d49766d32f85ae1b917c06874bca7e117534 refs/tags/w.2017.30

d3ef40641b9102e57e8ba7a88ffac335202b28fd refs/tags/w.2017.30^{}

It looks like the additional smoke test for building with scons added in DM-11385 broke the tarball build. This has been fixed with a 1 char changeset.

Summary of breakage:

• the weekly release failed when building tarballs (using eups distrib install) due the addition of a test that did not fail gracefully when a setupOptional() test data package was not present
• when trying to 'retag' the weekly release, it was discovered the github-tag-repos script would exit non-zero upon failed tag operations; and
• the weekly release script was unable to to move a tag
• the tarball "smoke tests" were broken last week due to a 1char typo

Summary of work:

• the github api library github3.py, used by github-tag-repos needed support for patching a ref (git annotated tag); 2 PRs opened on upstream
• add github tag error handling and a --fail-fast mode to github-tag-repos
• add --force-tag mode to github-tag-repos
• fixed smoke test breakage
• manually sync eups/git tags + hand held weekly release process
• change jenkins-dm-jobs to use the new --force-tag mode
• publishec a fork of github3.py to PYPI as sqre-codekit-github3.py
• add flake8 linting to sqre-codekit
• add travis-ci continuous deployment of sqre-codekit to PYPI
• cut 3.1.0 release of sqre-codekit