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List:       xml-cocoon-dev
Subject:    Re: Automatic releases
From:       Reinhard Poetz <reinhard () apache ! org>
Date:       2006-05-24 21:51:41
Message-ID: 4474D56D.4070907 () apache ! org
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Bruno Dumon wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 22:06 +0200, Reinhard Poetz wrote:
> 
>>Jorg Heymans wrote:
>>
>>>Reinhard Poetz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is there any possibility to provide automatic *unofficial* releases of
>>>>our artifacts? I'm asking because for me (and I think for others too)
>>>>it's an important requirement that only non-SNAPSHOT artifacts are used
>>>>in my POMs. That's the only way to guarantee that a POM working today
>>>>will still work tommorrow or in two years.
> 
> 
> One possibility is of course to maintain these non-official artifacts in
> the context of your own project.

How can I get such releases in an automated way?

>>>I fully agree with your argument about producing reproducible artifacts.
>>>
>>>However I'm not sure what to think when you say 'unofficial release'. A
>>>release is a release, whether we send a note to announce@a.o or not.
>>
>>The only difference to a snapshot releases is that we publish identifiable 
>>artifacts like cocoon-forms-r412334.jar instead of cocoon-forms-SNAPSHOT.jar.
>>Compare it with a nightly build and producing nightly builds has been done for ages.
> 
> <snip/>
> 
> If Cocoon has say 50 artifacts (I'm wildly guessing here), and you do 50
> releases a year, in 5 years this will give 12.500 released jars. Seems
> like quite a lot to keep around forever :-)

I would say that keeping them for about a month would be good enough. If 
somebody wants to rely on them, he has to put them into a local repository - 
using the maven-proxy-repository would make it very simple.

-- 
Reinhard Pötz           Independent Consultant, Trainer & (IT)-Coach 

{Software Engineering, Open Source, Web Applications, Apache Cocoon}

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