Raul, I don't see anything wrong with this approach. EA2 can follow EA. Versioning of EAs does not matter too much to me :)
You can download EAP build of IntellijIdea, although Idea 14 is available now for more than 1 year already. Btw, here is one more example of keeping EA versions in repo - http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.sun.jersey/jersey-client Hibernate seems to keep all versions in maven - http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hibernate/hibernate-core Personally I do not insist on releasing this in maven, but I don't think this is anything extraordinary. Guys, any more opinions? --Yakov 2015-11-30 22:12 GMT+03:00 Raul Kripalani <r...@evosent.com>: > Any others? I need some more convincing :) > > That Hazelcast does it doesn't mean that it's correct SW Engineering > practice. Perhaps they don't have a public Maven repo (probably that's the > reason) where they can publish their EA in a staging area. The ASF does > (advantage) and therefore we can use this facility. > > Moreover that nomenclature is horrible. It ties them up to a single EA. > What if it comes out with a blocking bug that impedes testing? They'd need > to release a second EA, and that's not taken into account. > On 30 Nov 2015 18:50, "Sergey Kozlov" <skoz...@gridgain.com> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Some companies provide EA releases in maven: > > > > > > > https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/com/hazelcast/hazelcast/3.6-EA/ > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Raul Kripalani <ra...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Yakov Zhdanov <yzhda...@apache.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > 1. I see nothing wrong in having EA perpetually available. I would > even > > > > prefer all vendors to keep all EA versions available just for > tracking > > > and > > > > history purposes. > > > > > > > > > > We have opposite views here. To me, early access versions are > ephemeral. > > > They are only legit until the final version is released. By doing that, > > you > > > run the risk that "forgetful" users who once tried an EA, keep using it > > > forever even after GA is released. > > > > > > In other words, what you are proposing to do – to push an EA to Maven > > > Central – is equivalent to Microsoft packaging Windows 11 Early Access > > in a > > > box and putting it on sale forever. And keeping it on sale even after > > > Windows 11 GA, Windows 12 GA, Windows 13 GA (Americans would probably > > skip > > > that :)), etc. are released decades after. > > > > > > No company or project does that, to my knowledge. I would consider it > an > > > anti-pattern. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > *Raúl Kripalani* > > > PMC & Committer @ Apache Ignite, Apache Camel | Integration, Big Data > and > > > Messaging Engineer > > > http://about.me/raulkripalani | > http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani > > > http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sergey Kozlov > > >
