RE: Maven2 release process in Continuum

2007-07-19 Thread Johan Iskandar
But if a new test case is introduced then the maintainer of the 1.2.3.4 pom should increment the bug-fix number (or whatever name is best used here) so the new version would be 1.2.4.0 I mean the maintainer should trigger maven to increment the bug-fix number He himself doesn't need to

RE: Maven2 release process in Continuum

2007-07-19 Thread Johan Iskandar
-Original Message- From: Jesse McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ah, I basically see what your problem is... that is what the whole SNAPSHOT concept addresses... where you are saying a project would only care about 1.2.3 and not the build numbers..that is functionally

Re: Maven2 release process in Continuum

2007-07-19 Thread Jesse McConnell
there have been threads on this on the maven-users and maven-dev lists... in fact Kenny has written extensively on this topic I believe :) if your interested in contributing to this effort, I would take a look there for places to help out. the fundamental problem your dealing with is that

RE: Maven2 release process in Continuum

2007-07-19 Thread Johan Iskandar
-Original Message- From: Jesse McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] there have been threads on this on the maven-users and maven-dev lists... in fact Kenny has written extensively on this topic I believe :) I've searched the web for Kenny, version, maven-dev, maven-user and my

Re: Maven2 release process in Continuum

2007-07-18 Thread James Abley
On 18/07/07, Jesse McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: at the moment I think you need to make sure the underlying project that you are going to try and release is 'clean' for the release. that means that all dependencies that you are going to release ave been resolved into released and available

RE: Maven2 release process in Continuum

2007-07-18 Thread Johan Iskandar
: Maven2 release process in Continuum On 18/07/07, Jesse McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: at the moment I think you need to make sure the underlying project that you are going to try and release is 'clean' for the release. that means that all dependencies that you are going to release ave been

RE: Maven2 release process in Continuum

2007-07-18 Thread Johan Iskandar
:54 PM To: continuum-users@maven.apache.org Subject: Re: Maven2 release process in Continuum On 18/07/07, Jesse McConnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: at the moment I think you need to make sure the underlying project that you are going to try and release is 'clean' for the release

Re: Maven2 release process in Continuum

2007-07-18 Thread Jesse McConnell
are you making good use of dependencyManagement? This should let you centralize the majority of actual version information and make it easy to release. as for speed of releasing I have released quite large multi module builds in a phased approach where I had to resolve snapshots between

Re: Maven2 release process in Continuum

2007-07-18 Thread Arnaud Bailly
Hello, Johan Iskandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BUT, I wonder whether maven encourages an explicit declaration of version in the pom(just as the above assumption)? Please advise? Also why does it use SNAPSHOT instead of build version..(the letter z in my example)? Yes, maven enforces an

Re: Maven2 release process in Continuum

2007-07-17 Thread Jesse McConnell
at the moment I think you need to make sure the underlying project that you are going to try and release is 'clean' for the release. that means that all dependencies that you are going to release ave been resolved into released and available artifacts. the continuum release mechanism makes use