Can you give me feedback feedback / recommendation about how can I write extensions for Maven to support a build pipeline and artifact promotion in a "standard" way. As far as understand these issues are common problems, because I have found many blogs describing hacks and workarounds. I also have to mention that nexus and artifactory provide custom fixes for these problems, but I would prefer not to be locked to a specific vendor. I built an ant/ivy build pipeline implementing promotion with the help of my team mates. My primary motivation is to enable the mixing of artifacts from ant and maven builds through a central maven repository.
I have two main issues with the current Maven model: - no standard way to handle traceable snapshot i.e. snapshots are temporary and I can't push them through on the testing pipeline by referencing to them by a unique id (build number); - no standard way to reference to staged/promoted artifact in the dynamic version number i.e. I can't specify in a standard way that I want the latest artifact which passed the integration test and has version from a specific branch. Proposal for promotion model: - store status information in a POM property (introducing standard meta data in the POM would be much nicer) e.g. integration, milestone - write an extension which can interpret and resolve "3.3.? latest.milestone" like notation in the version number Proposal for staging model: - status information is identified by the repository location, so I have to be able to add multiple repositories with meta data about the status of the stored artifacts - write an extension which can interpret and resolve "3.3.?, latest.milestone" like notation in the version number Gabor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
