Hi Hadrian, All-

For background, for those who don't know -- the aim of the downstream-parent project is to minimize what a user needs to put into their POM to build a project.

The main things are:

* dependency on brooklyn-all
* building OSGi
* setting up logback correctly
* dependency on brooklyn test utils
* convenient test groups (integration, live, etc)
* specifying versions of libraries brought in (this should probably be removed, it's a repetition)

The easiest option is probably to bake this in to the archetype -- Hadrian's (a). That could make downstream project POMs tedious to maintain -- but that's a well-known problem with POMs anyway.

I don't see (b) `<scope>import</scope>` working as I don't think we can do a lot of the above purely with <dependencyManagement> which is what I understand import scope to do (although I'm not that familiar with it).

I think there is a third option which Hadrian hinted att:

(c) Change downstream to be parented by brooklyn-parent, adding what we need to add/customise for the list above. Then in the archetype's sample pom we override those items which aren't relevant (e.g. license, apache release items; if someone does want apache release, they add them back) and add those things which might be needed but can't be put in the downstream-parent pom (e.g. the snapshot repos, commented out, so people can enable them easily if they way).

I'm happy with either (a) or (c), with a slight preference for (c).

Best
Alex


On 28/06/2015 02:09, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote:
This is not an easy one and imho would require some community choice before implementing a solution.

1. To be able to release downstream-parent, it would have to have the proper configuration, specifically for the release and gpg maven plugins, that comes actually from the org.apache:apache:17 parent. 2. Consequently, the downstream parent should have either org.apache:apache:17 or even better org.apache.brooklyn:brooklyn-parent as a parent.
3. The downstream-parent is only used in the quickstart archetype.

There is questionable value in having a downstream-parent that users would have to change anyway if it caries the apache scp and release configurations that wouldn't apply for a user's project.

The only 2 solutions I can think of are to:
a. Get rid of the downstream parent and move all the necessary incantations in the quickstart archetype. b. Transform the downstream-parent (and maybe come up with a better name for it) into a <scope>import</scope> pom [1].

I think this is a blocker for the release.

Thoughts?
Hadrian

[1] https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Importing_Dependencies

On 06/27/2015 04:05 AM, Andrea Turli wrote:
Thanks Hadrian,

I've also found this one while googling for another project [1], so either
Apache parent or nothing should fix the issue.

HTH,
Andrea

[1]:
http://central.sonatype.org/pages/apache-maven.html#deprecated-oss-parent

On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 at 05:58 Hadrian Zbarcea <[email protected]> wrote:

First thing, the <parent> for the brooklyn-downstream-parent should not be:
    <parent>
      <groupId>org.sonatype.oss</groupId>
      <artifactId>oss-parent</artifactId>
      <version>9</version>
    </parent>

but the apache parent ultimately. I think this should completely resolve
the problem. It's a bit late here to test, I'll do it tomorrow.

Cheers,
Hadrian


On 06/26/2015 11:35 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote:
I did try a dryRun myself and did encounter a problem with the
brooklyn-downstream-parent, but of a different nature
"'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM", but I suspect there
more issues there. From my experience releasing other projects, I try to first remove relevant branches from my local maven repo before preparing
a release.

I will look at it during the weekend. Somebody should revert the version
back from 0.8.0-SNAPSHOT though.

Cheers,
Hadrian

On 06/26/2015 04:53 PM, Richard Downer wrote:
So we got all the source code lined up today, and the release branch
made.
Everything was going very promisingly until I tried to close the Nexus
repository to publish the artifacts and got a rule violation error.

I'll have a look at fixing the problem and re-starting the release on
Monday (unfortunately I won't have any availability to look at this over
the weekend).

In the meantime if anyone is looking for something to do over the
weekend,
the exact failure Nexus reported was:

Missing Signature:

'/org/apache/brooklyn/brooklyn-downstream-parent/0.7.0-incubating/brooklyn-downstream-parent-0.7.0-incubating.pom.asc'

does not exist for 'brooklyn-downstream-parent-0.7.0-incubating.pom'.

Everything else has a .pom.asc except downstream-parent so it seems
there's
something special about this project.

Richard.





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