Start using Nexus? The default setting in Nexus for a hosted repo is to not allow re-deployments. You'll have Nexus up and running in less than a day and it will give you a lot more benefits than this one.
/Anders On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 13:21, Eric Rotick <pc.gree...@gmail.com> wrote: > This might be more to do with SCM than Maven but as Maven seems to have the > handle on most things I thought I'd ask this list first. > > It is clear that the version contained in the pom is vitally important and > the process by which a version or revision number is incremented is clear. > Unfortunately, someone made a mistake of making a significant change to > some > source and re-released the jars without changing the version. The result > was > that the client application would not talk to the server in certain > conditions. > > Basically, given our current procedures, this was a problem waiting to > happen. > > Although it is clear what needs to happen it eludes us how this is > enforced. > It seems that we need the ability to write snapshots any number of times > but > non snapshots can only be written once and then no more. > > Hmm, I've just thought, maybe this is what the likes of Nexus and > Artifactory would do, but as you've probably guessed we don't use anything > like this. > > Could anyone offer advice or practices to stop this happening again. > > Thanks. >
