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Richard Eckart de Castilho commented on UIMA-6443:
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Jetty is publishing their update site directly to Maven Central as a bundle of
metadata that references the other artifacts which are also going to maven
central. It would be marvellous if we could do that for UIMA.
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/75f5cc68e4358decc58e4ba7ba00b8f7f5f9bd32/jetty-p2/pom.xml#L20
> Fresh Eclipse update site for every release
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> Key: UIMA-6443
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-6443
> Project: UIMA
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Build, Packaging and Test
> Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
> Assignee: Richard Eckart de Castilho
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.4.0SDK
>
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> we have recently been reminded that cleaning up old releases from our website
> would be a good thing.
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-6427
> I have done that for the source/binary releases, but the question how to
> handle the Eclipse udpate sites is still somewhat open.
> It seems that currently, our Eclipse update sites contain multiple releases.
> I.e. whenever we do a new release of the UIMA
> Java SDK or UIMA Ruta or such, the existing update site is checked out from
> SVN, the new release is added to it, and then
> the updated site is committed back.
> When I speak of "update site" in this mail, I actually mean the "sub-sites"
> we maintain for uimaj, ruta, uima-as, etc. and
> *not* the generic top-level "composite update site" that is usually not
> touched at all during releases.
> We have a process described on the website to regularly "archive" update
> sites and start them freshly:
> https://uima.apache.org/dev-eclipse-plugin-archiving
> But this is something raising the question of: when should we "archive" the
> update site?
> I believe things would be cleaner if we didn't update the update sites at all
> but instead *always* archived the
> previous update site and created a fresh update site with every release.
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