On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Christian Schneider < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > first many thanks to Holly for organizing the Aries release. This is > really a lot of work and she is doinga great job making it possible. Btw. I > hope aries can switch to a simpler release concept soon but this is not > what I wanted to discuss. > I know I keep saying it, but I do think once the 1.0.0 bundles are released, everything will be much easier. :) In particular, we'll have far fewer snapshot dependencies in our poms, so the case where we depend on an 'old' snapshot while a release is being voted through will be rarer. > I have a concern about the old snapshots when a release takes place. > Currently the snapshots are removed from the apache snapshot repo as soon > as a release is started. This means that dependent projects like karaf have > to adapt all the time. > Oh dear. I *thought* from what Dan had said that the old snapshot wasn't removed until the release was actually promoted. Certainly I can see, for example, 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT of blueprint-core at https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/org/apache/aries/blueprint/org.apache.aries.blueprint.core/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/. However, if the karaf builds have been red for 24 days, that suggests this understanding is wrong. :) > > So for each part of aries that is released we first have to switch to the > next snapshot version as the release is not yet there and then to the > release version. Even this effort only helps for local builds at the moment > as the new snapshots do not seem to work through Jenkins. So each developer > also has to build the aries trunk all the time. > > So basically this means that the karaf build on Jenkins is now red for 24 > days. > I agree this is not at all ideal and needs to be fixed, in some way or another. I'll investigate and see if I can figure out what's going on with the awol snapshots. > So to improve this I propose to keep the old snapshots for some months so > dependent projects have some time to adapt to a new release or snapshot. > What do you think? Is this possible? I think this is a Nexus configuration issue, and nothing to do with us directly. Maybe Dan Kulp knows more? Holly > > > Christian > > -- > Christian Schneider > http://www.liquid-reality.de > > Open Source Architect > Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com > >
