Question about the Felix release process

2014-06-17 Thread David Bosschaert
The Felix release process (http://felix.apache.org/documentation/development/release-management-nexus.html) says that you need to deploy a snapshot using 'mvn deploy'. I'm not sure I fully understand the reason for this? If it is to test the to-be-released artifacts, then these are available in

Re: Question about the Felix release process

2014-06-17 Thread Felix Meschberger
Hi David Not sure any longer, why we have this SNAPSHOT step. Maybe really it was about building a release candidate for others to test. For the actual release process it is not really relevant. Regards Felix Am 17.06.2014 um 11:37 schrieb David Bosschaert david.bosscha...@gmail.com: The

Re: Question about the Felix release process

2014-06-17 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:37 AM, David Bosschaert david.bosscha...@gmail.com wrote: The Felix release process (http://felix.apache.org/documentation/development/release-management-nexus.html) says that you need to deploy a snapshot using 'mvn deploy' We do the same for Sling at

Re: Question about the Felix release process

2014-06-17 Thread David Bosschaert
Right - it makes sense to be able to deploy snapshots to the snapshot repo for the reason you outline or when people want to integrate SNAPSHOT components before a release, but I guess that doesn't mean it needs to be part of the release *process*. The ultimate validation of a release candidate is

Re: Question about the Felix release process

2014-06-17 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:43 PM, David Bosschaert david.bosscha...@gmail.com wrote: Right - it makes sense to be able to deploy snapshots to the snapshot repo for the reason you outline or when people want to integrate SNAPSHOT components before a release, but I guess that doesn't mean it