For ITs we sometimes leverage dedicated test bundles (which should only be deployed for the purpose of running the IT). Those test bundles are usually not released (i.e. stay at 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT). But with PaxExam or even with the slingstart-maven-plugin it is now easily possible to have ITs in the same Maven module as the actual bundle (e.g. https://github.com/apache/sling/tree/trunk/bundles/extensions/validation/core, leveraging PaxExam or https://github.com/apache/sling/tree/trunk/bundles/extensions/models/validation-impl leveraging slingstart-maven-plugin). For the former I have the problem that doing a release on that is not possible because that still has a dependency to https://github.com/apache/sling/blob/trunk/bundles/extensions/validation/test-services/pom.xml. What do you prefer:
1. Release with the Snapshot test dependency, leveraging http://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/prepare-mojo.html#allowTimestampedSnapshots, compare with http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37562658/release-project-with-snapshot-test-dependency or 2. Release the test-services as well? Thanks for your input, Konrad
