[Alioth-staff-replacement] protecting archive/* tags on the alioth replacement

[Alexander Wirt]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2017, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Hi.  I have a favour to ask of people working on the proposed alioth
> replacement.
> 
> I would like that replacement to reserve the git namespace
> refs/tags/archive/* (that is, to prevent such tags from being pushed).
I really don't think we as a platform provider should fiddle around with the
way git works. Every repo owner is free to do so.

Alex