Hi Fabian On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Fabian Christ <[email protected]> wrote: > For the parent POM I would like to change the versioning schema like > other projects do this. The release version of the parent POM would be > "1" and the next development version would be changed to "2-SNAPSHOT". > I think most projects use this style as there is no need for minor or > revisions in the parent POM. Also, the parent POM should not change > that often.
I would expect the parent POM to change frequently. The reason why I believe that is that we have a lot of dependencies to other frameworks that we will need to update (e.g. tina 1.1 was released last week; we still use solr 3.2 while Solr 3.6 is already release; Clerezza will be updated to use the Apache Jena version; the next openNLP version is upcoming; we need to update the junit version as soon as 4.11 is released because currently unit test execution oder on Java 7 is not deterministic; ...) All those changes will require to update the parent POM as it includes all those versions. So even a version change within the parent POM does no necessarily require to release that POM on the next release of a component (as those released components might not depend on any dependencies with changes version and could therefore use an already released version of the parent POM) I would still expect rather short release cycle of the parent POM. To conclude: I do not object with you suggestion. I only tried to point out that I believe you assumption that the parent POM will not change very often is not the case for a "dependency heavy" project like Apache Stanbol. If you do not have a problem with parent POM versions >20 than your proposal might still be OK. Otherwise I would suggest to use minor version upgrades for version changes of dependencies. > > Are there any pending changes in these artifacts that I should wait > for before making the release? Then please raise a flag. > Non from my side > I would like to prepare the release tomorrow morning. > +1 > Best, > - Fabian > > -- > Fabian > http://twitter.com/fctwitt -- | Rupert Westenthaler [email protected] | Bodenlehenstraße 11 ++43-699-11108907 | A-5500 Bischofshofen
