Alex, The problem is not the use of LATEST (which is indeed deprecated and hopefully nobody uses it anymore), but the fact that releasing a 9.0.0.Final when the 9.44.0.Final will break maven implicit version numbers ordering and semantic versioning.
Moreover this will be even more problematic and confusing for users, especially new ones. How do you choose the version of a dependency that you have to add for the first time into your project? Personally what I do is going to the Maven Central Repository Search website, doing a search for the dependency I need and bringing in the very latest version (unless there are very good reasons, like a known bug, not to do so). Now if I'd do this exercise with drools I'd always bring in 9.44 even if there are new versions available (but with a lower version number). If you really want a fresh start (and I could agree that it could be a good idea at this point) then we should skip the 9 at all ( like Windows did so it could not be THAT bad :) ) and release a 10.0.0.Final. Mario On 2023/10/16 13:29:11 Alex Porcelli wrote: > Mario, > > Thank you for the 9.44 reference, I though we had somehow an Alpha release > and not a final one. > > With all pros and cons of the current situation (including the already > published 9.44) - I’d still prefer a hard reset around 9.0 focused on > Jakarta 10 only. > > In my opinion the hard reset on 9.0 with Jakarta 10 > outperforms the impact of the already existing 9.44 release. (It’s my > understanding that the impact is for users that would use -LATEST - which > is already considered a deprecated format anyway) > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 9:11 AM Mario Fusco <mariofu...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > To me, it feels messy that we have a 8.45.0 release, followed by a 9.45 > > > release in our first Apache release, and immediately after put 8.x (1.x > > for > > > Kogito) in maintenance. > > > > > > I think we could step back and re-evaluate our strategy. > > > > > > Why not reset and focus only on Jakarta10 (and Quarkus/SpringBoot. 3.x) > > and > > > cut it as 9.0? (yes, I’m aware that we had in recent past a 9.44.Alpha). > > > > Hi Alex, > > > > What you suggested makes sense and as I wrote I'm equally afraid that > > users may be confused around our versions numbering. Unfortunately I'm also > > afraid that you missed that we already put out a 9.44.0.Final version ( > > https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.drools/drools-engine ) that is > > the result of that automatic migration of version 8.44 to Quarkus 3 and > > Jakarta using that Openrewrite script. That's the reason why I think that > > there aren't many alternatives other than continuing from there. Can you > > think to any better solution? > > > > Thanks, > > Mario > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@kie.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@kie.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@kie.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@kie.apache.org
