Hi Rupert, Thanks for your suggestions. I'll go for the 2nd option.
Currently I'm moving the parent but the plan is to gradually copy everything to the branch. The branch should also contain a new minimum launcher providing no actual functionality but acting as a test-bed for modules. Cheers, Reto On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Rupert Westenthaler < [email protected]> wrote: > HI > > IMO version numbers in a branch are not a big deal. We need only to > decide before we merge back to the trunk. > > In my experience there are two things to consider - to allow efficient > development and (integration) testing: > > 1. having the same version numbers in a branch makes it more easy for > developers to test the branch version with together with trunk > versions of other bundles (as you can just hot deploy branch versions > of the branch to normal Stanbol Launchers) > > 2. having different version numbers makes it easier to work on trunk > and branch stuff at the same time (as otherwise the local maven cache > can easily become an issue). In this case it helps development to have > an own launcher configuration in the branch that can be used for > testing (I had done this for the disambiguation branch) > > In doubt I would rather opt for the 2nd option - increasing the > version numbers and having an own launcher used for testing within the > branch. > > BTW Do you plan to move the whole codebase to the branch, just the > commons modules, or some other subset of modules? Currently the branch > seams to only contain a parent/parent/pom.xml file. > > best > Rupert > > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Following our previous discussion about the large code base and Ruperts > > suggestion I've created a new commons-ng branch with the umbrella issue > > STANBOL-1094. > > > > For versions I suggest to incrementent the versions of the components in > > the branch to the next full version. I.e. most components would become > > 1.0.0 and the parent becomes version 14. This means that if a parent is > > relased before the branch one the version in trunk should become > > 13.1-SNAPSHOT. WDYT? > > > > Cheers, > > Reto > > > > -- > | Rupert Westenthaler [email protected] > | Bodenlehenstraße 11 ++43-699-11108907 > | A-5500 Bischofshofen >
