Hi,

I like option 2. I would also suggest we have a courser grained
distribution model. I do not see a need to release proxy and quiesce
distributions. I think it would be useful to release blueprint,
application and jndi distributions though that pulled in dependencies.
So a blueprint distribution would contain blueprint + proxy + util,
and jndi would be jndi + proxy + util, and so on. This would make it
easier for people to get "something that works" than it is today, but
it doesn't result in lots and lots of distributions. I do not think we
need a distribution per module.

Alasdair

On 28 February 2011 11:36, zoe slattery <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi - After 4 or 5 days spent fighting the maven release plugin I have
> something that is probably worth discussing.
>
> For releasing modules I think I'm down to two options.
>
> 1) We follow Guillaume's suggestion of having release artifact versions
> different to bundle versions
>        - We can release by module as we do now
>        - Might have unexpected side effects where people expect the
> BundleVersion to be the same as the version in the artifact name.
>        - We release the same code more than once, with different artifact
> names
>
> 2) We release each bundle in a module, only where the bundle has actually
> changed. Then find a way to distribute bundles that we know work together.
>       - A bit more work to release, but not a stupid amount
>       - Versions in artifact names are the same as Bundle-Version
>       - We don't release the same code over again
>
> I have a sample of what a module distro might look like here :
> http://people.apache.org/~zoe/TEST-org.apche.aries.proxy-distro-0.8.zip. It
> contains the build-able source for the whole proxy module, and, under
> 'bundles', the proxy jars corresponding to the release.
>
> I'd like some feedback on a couple of things:
>
> (a) Do people feel it's necessary to have the buildable module source in a
> distro? I ask this because this is the part that's been very had to do. Just
> collecting up the bundles is very easy.
> (b) Does option 2 seem like a reasonable way forward? I think we could
> construct something similar for a complete aries distro with working
> samples, but I haven't tried yet.
>
> Zoė
>
>
>  <http://people.apache.org/%7Ezoe/TEST-org.apache.aries.proxy-distro-0.8.zip>
>
>



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