I really don't like the idea. If the goal is to deliver fixes to users, why not increase the release frequency of micro releases ? It will cause much less troubles and keep things manageable and simple for both the devs and users communities.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Henryk Konsek <hekon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Unfortunately I won't be able to join the IRC session today as I need > to hire myself as a babysitter this evening. However I would like to > discuss some subject that come up recently [1]. One on the issues > discussed during the previous IRC session was the question whether is > it possible to release components more frequently than core. > > I was wondering if we could introduce additional versioning for the > components based on the Maven version qualifiers [2] starting from > Camel 3. Qualifiers are fully supported by Maven. Versions comparison > and ranges work with qualifiers as well [3]. As far as I googled > Release Plugin can handle them correctly too (as well as > submodule-only release). > > The versioning of the core would stay the same. Whenever we release > core, we release all the components as well - this doesn't change as > we want to guarantee the users that we have tested all components > against the latest core. However we could change the versioning of the > components to be qualified as follows - camel-cxf-3.0.0-CR-01 (where > CR qualifier stands for "Component Release"). > > What camel-cxf-3.0.0-CR-03 version would state is - this is the 3rd > version of the CXF component tested against the Camel 3.0.0 core. > > This approach will require us to decouple "components" module from the > core the same was as camel-extra is. To be exact components should be > dependent on the release version of camel-core instead of SNAPSHOT. > And we should perform core release separately before the components > release. > > I have never worked with qualified releases so I'm not sure if this > approach won't be the release hell, but I think we could consider this > option as Maven offers qualifiers out of the box. This may be a nice > option to reduce time needed to deliver the latest artifacts to the > end users. > > What do you think? > > Best regards. > > [1] > http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/DISCUSS-CAMEL-3-0-weekly-IRC-chat-at-02-12-2013-7-00PM-8-00PM-CET-td5727462.html > [2] > http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/pom-relationships-sect-pom-syntax.html > [3] > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Dependency+Mediation+and+Conflict+Resolution > > -- > Henryk Konsek > http://henryk-konsek.blogspot.com > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Red Hat, Open Source Integration Email: gno...@redhat.com Web: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
