what are people doing for versioning/tagging docker images built with pants? any favorite tools / methodologies you've incorporated? would be interested in the same question as it applied to python packages as well

Tag every build by the commit hash of the repo. Then cut releases manually when we do our release process by retagging images already built.

if it's not too big a bother would you mind describing your release process at a high level?

Roughly, we • Implement a bunch of features • Cut a branch called something like

our-release-<major>.<minor>

• Run some heavier verification campaigns on that branch and make any fixes to that and master as needed • Once all verified, promote the final commit and its associated artifacts as a new patch release

<major>.<minor>.<patch>

• As new fixes our needed, make additional patch releases on that branch • Repeat for new major.minor combos