Is there any way to remove artifacts from Maven Central? Maybe that would help clean these things up long-term, though it would create problems for users who for some reason decide to rely on these previews.
In any case, if people are *really* concerned about this, we should just put it there. My thought was that it's better for users to do something special to link to this release (e.g. add a reference to the staging repo) so that they are more likely to know that it's a special, unstable thing. Same thing they do to use snapshots. Matei On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Luciano Resende <luckbr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Mark Hamstra <m...@clearstorydata.com> > wrote: > >> I still don't know where this "severely compromised builds of limited >>> usefulness" thing comes from? what's so bad? You didn't veto its >>> release, after all. >> >> >> I simply mean that it was released with the knowledge that there are >> still significant bugs in the preview that definitely would warrant a veto >> if this were intended to be on a par with other releases. There have been >> repeated announcements to that effect, but developers finding the preview >> artifacts on Maven Central months from now may well not also see those >> announcements and related discussion. The artifacts will be very stale and >> no longer useful for their limited testing purpose, but will persist in the >> repository. >> >> > A few months from now, why would a developer choose a preview, alpha, beta > compared to the GA 2.0 release ? > > As for the being stale part, this is true for every release anyone put out > there. > > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ >
