Thank you for the clarification of the implications to recycle 9.x, Mario!

Given that situation, my personal preference, for better communication
sake, is to have a hard reset to 10.0 focused only on Jakarta 10.

Maybe it's worth a new thread for sake of clarity? I can start it.


On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 10:11 AM Mario Fusco <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Alex,
>
> The problem is not the use of LATEST (which is indeed deprecated and 
> hopefully nobody uses it anymore), but the fact that releasing a 9.0.0.Final 
> when the 9.44.0.Final will break maven implicit version numbers ordering and 
> semantic versioning.
>
> Moreover this will be even more problematic and confusing for users, 
> especially new ones. How do you choose the version of a dependency that you 
> have to add for the first time into your project? Personally what I do is 
> going to the Maven Central Repository Search website, doing a search for the 
> dependency I need and bringing in the very latest version (unless there are 
> very good reasons, like a known bug, not to do so). Now if I'd do this 
> exercise with drools I'd always bring in 9.44 even if there are new versions 
> available (but with a lower version number).
>
> If you really want a fresh start (and I could agree that it could be a good 
> idea at this point) then we should skip the 9 at all ( like Windows did so it 
> could not be THAT bad :) ) and release a 10.0.0.Final.
>
> Mario
>
> On 2023/10/16 13:29:11 Alex Porcelli wrote:
> > Mario,
> >
> > Thank you for the 9.44 reference, I though we had somehow an Alpha release
> > and not a final one.
> >
> > With all pros and cons of the current situation (including the already
> > published 9.44) - I’d still prefer a hard reset around 9.0 focused on
> > Jakarta 10 only.
> >
> > In my opinion the hard reset on 9.0 with Jakarta 10
> > outperforms the impact of the already existing 9.44 release. (It’s my
> > understanding that the impact is for users that would use -LATEST - which
> > is already considered a deprecated format anyway)
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 9:11 AM Mario Fusco <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > To me, it feels messy that we have a 8.45.0 release, followed by a 9.45
> > > > release in our first Apache release, and immediately after put 8.x (1.x
> > > for
> > > > Kogito) in maintenance.
> > > >
> > > > I think we could step back and re-evaluate our strategy.
> > > >
> > > > Why not reset and focus only on Jakarta10 (and Quarkus/SpringBoot. 3.x)
> > > and
> > > > cut it as 9.0? (yes, I’m aware that we had in recent past a 9.44.Alpha).
> > >
> > > Hi Alex,
> > >
> > > What you suggested makes sense and as I wrote I'm equally afraid that
> > > users may be confused around our versions numbering. Unfortunately I'm 
> > > also
> > > afraid that you missed that we already put out a 9.44.0.Final version (
> > > https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.drools/drools-engine ) that is
> > > the result of that automatic migration of version 8.44 to Quarkus 3 and
> > > Jakarta using that Openrewrite script. That's the reason why I think that
> > > there aren't many alternatives other than continuing from there. Can you
> > > think to any better solution?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mario
> > >
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