On http://www.apache.org/dev/repository-faq.html
They call out deploying a SNAPSHOT as long as the PMC is ok with it, but they also mention Maven 1 which, I believe, is older than me.
I don't think that deploying artifacts to the snapshots area of Nexus equates to an official release, but that's my opinion and the lack of any other docs that make me think otherwise (if we weren't allowed to deploy snapshots, why would we even have that repository available to us).
I looked at the Jenkins job briefly too. The job does have an option to auto-deploy, but I'm not sure if the permissions would be implicitly handled for us. I haven't found another project which appears to publish snapshots on each build yet.
On 6/11/14, 10:31 AM, Christopher wrote:
I don't know for sure about what was done in the past, but we should consider the ASF policy about not making non releases generally available to non devs before we make this change. Can try to find link to policy later. Before we released 1.6.0, I got a request to upload some new 1.6.0-SNAPSHOT jars. After thinking about it some more, I convinced myself that we, at one point, had SNAPSHOTs being automatically deployed by Jenkins. Does anyone remember for sure? Was it lost in the svn->git transition? Any arguments against not trying to make this work again?
