Thanks for the feedback. I'm not super familiar with the inner workings of Apache's Maven repos, so I can't explain why we do things the way we do. I followed the same process on all Apache projects I was on (Kafka, Sqoop, Flume). Do you know projects that do things the way you suggested?
Either way, may be worthwhile to start a different discussion thread about RC releases in Maven. Perhaps more knowledgable people will see it and jump in. Gwen On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Steven Schlansker <sschlans...@opentable.com> wrote: > >> On Apr 7, 2017, at 5:12 PM, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote: >> >> Hello Kafka users, developers and client-developers, >> >> This is the first candidate for the release of Apache Kafka 0.10.2.1. This >> is a bug fix release and it includes fixes and improvements from 24 JIRAs >> (including a few critical bugs). See the release notes for more details: > > Hi Gwen, > > I downloaded and tested the RC with a small Kafka Streams app and the upgrade > seems to have gone smoothly. (I did not upgrade any brokers though). > > One question about the RC process -- currently it seems that the RC is > uploaded > to a staging repo with the final release version. > > Would it not be easier for the community if instead the RC is uploaded to the > main repo with a "-rc" version? > > > Currently, you have to convince Maven to get "0.10.2.1" from the staging repo, > and then when the final version hits Maven would never update in case there > were > any post-RC changes. > > Additionally, if there are further RCs, it is quite easy to confuse yourself > and not be sure exactly which RC jar you are running at any given time, and > the > problem compounds itself when multiple developers or build boxes are involved. > > Many other projects instead would create a "0.10.2.1-rc0" version and publish > that to the normal Maven Central -- that way it is publicly downloadable and > strongly tagged / versioned as the RC. > > Has the Kafka project given any thought to this sort of a proposal? > As a tester / outside user it would make the process a little easier. > > Either way, excited for the 0.10.2.1 release, and thanks for all the work! > -- Gwen Shapira Product Manager | Confluent 650.450.2760 | @gwenshap Follow us: Twitter | blog
