Hi Christian for me it is OK. Good idea. For me it is very tedious to manage several version in pom....
Regards Giuseppe 2015-05-20 17:12 GMT+02:00 Christian Schneider <[email protected]>: > Currently we release each bundle separately and we do not release tests > and examples at all. > This approach is very fine grained and tedious if several bundles need to > be released. Probably Holly can tell some stories about the fun of > releasing aries 1.0.0. > > So I would like to discuss changing to a more coarse grained model. > > The idea is to release per "sub project" like e.g. Aries JPA. This would > mean that we always release all bundles of a sub project even if nothing > has changed. > Of course we would still version exported packages according to semantic > versioning rules. So apart from having some additional bundle I do not see > a big disadvantage in the coarse grained model. Users could still depend on > the old api and still work with newer releases if the API did not change. > > On the other side there are a lot of advantages for releasing per sub > project: > - Easier to understand for users. > They could say I am using Aries JPA 2.0.0 instead of saying I use > org.apache.aries.jpa.api 1.0.2, org.apache.aries.jpa.blueprint.aries > 1.0.4, org.apache.aries.jpa.container 1.0.2, > org.apache.aries.jpa.container.context 1.0.4 > - The jira structure would be simpler as we would only need one version > per sub project > - We could migrate to git at last as we could then have one git repo per > subproject that could be nicely branched and tagged on the repo / sub > project level. > One other nice thing would be that we could move to git gradually one > sub project at a time without disturbing the others. > - We would tag the tests and examples together with the production > bundles. This makes it much easier to run tests against a specific release > version. > This should also make it much easier to maintain bugfix branches and > make sure they are properly tested. > - Per apache policy we have to store all releases at > www.apache.org/dist/aries. With the current fine grained model almost no > one seems to do this. This should also be easier with more coarse grained > releases. > > > What do you think? > > Christian > > -- > Christian Schneider > http://www.liquid-reality.de > > Open Source Architect > http://www.talend.com > >
