On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Reto Gmür <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brian, David, all, > > Thanks for your feedback - and sorry for my late reply. > > I did some more playing around with the mvn:release plugins and > unfortunately found no way to use it for individually versioned projects > sharing a singe git repo. The maven git flow plugin also assumes one version > per repository. > > Regarding the management of the repos: We do not plan to mandate the use of > any tool. One of the advanatges of 1-repo per module is that people only > need to check out and get into the subprojects they are actually interested > in. Reactor projects will use git submodules to integrate the modules, so > one can get all the modules by recursively updating the submodules of the > root-reactor. > > In the case we want to draft a change that spans over multiple modules we > would have to individually branch those projects and branch the reactor or > provide a temporary reactor that contains only the branched projects. The > temporary reactor approach is possible as the module depend on the released > version of other modules by default, so the modules would depend on a > SNAPSHOT version only where this is also branched. > > As for the release process: A goal of the new approach is to make releasing > much easier ans thus much more frequent. So often we will be releasing just > a single module. When releasing multiple modules we will generate several > artifacts and call for a common vote. A single vote is necessary if the > modules are interdependent, as otherwise the votes would have to be held > sequentially following the dependency chain. > > Even if Infra is *very* responsive for 200 repos having a self-service > system seems to be more convenient. Allura looks good, gitlab might be a bit > easier as it is focused on git. >
I don't disagree that having a self-service system would be convenient; it's come up in conversation several times in the past few months. However, this isn't currently a priority for infra. For the moment, projects have to keep their source code in an infra-maintained repository. --David
