Hi, Unfortunately I won't be able to join the IRC session today as I need to hire myself as a babysitter this evening. However I would like to discuss some subject that come up recently [1]. One on the issues discussed during the previous IRC session was the question whether is it possible to release components more frequently than core.
I was wondering if we could introduce additional versioning for the components based on the Maven version qualifiers [2] starting from Camel 3. Qualifiers are fully supported by Maven. Versions comparison and ranges work with qualifiers as well [3]. As far as I googled Release Plugin can handle them correctly too (as well as submodule-only release). The versioning of the core would stay the same. Whenever we release core, we release all the components as well - this doesn't change as we want to guarantee the users that we have tested all components against the latest core. However we could change the versioning of the components to be qualified as follows - camel-cxf-3.0.0-CR-01 (where CR qualifier stands for "Component Release"). What camel-cxf-3.0.0-CR-03 version would state is - this is the 3rd version of the CXF component tested against the Camel 3.0.0 core. This approach will require us to decouple "components" module from the core the same was as camel-extra is. To be exact components should be dependent on the release version of camel-core instead of SNAPSHOT. And we should perform core release separately before the components release. I have never worked with qualified releases so I'm not sure if this approach won't be the release hell, but I think we could consider this option as Maven offers qualifiers out of the box. This may be a nice option to reduce time needed to deliver the latest artifacts to the end users. What do you think? Best regards. [1] http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/DISCUSS-CAMEL-3-0-weekly-IRC-chat-at-02-12-2013-7-00PM-8-00PM-CET-td5727462.html [2] http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/pom-relationships-sect-pom-syntax.html [3] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Dependency+Mediation+and+Conflict+Resolution -- Henryk Konsek http://henryk-konsek.blogspot.com
