Hi Dirk, On Wed, 2022-01-19 at 12:19 +0100, Dirk Rudolph wrote: > Hey Robert, > > just thinking a little outside the box here: > > A "snapshot" is something rather specific for Maven, and less widely > used in other ecosystems like nodejs/npm or afaik docker hub. > > In nodejs/npm developers use "next" as the tag for the current head > of > the main branch. > > And as docker hub refers to tags as well, maybe it makes sense to use > "next" here too?
Thanks for bringing this up, I was not familiar with other convention. I took a look at what other Apache projects are doing, and I found mostly 'snapshot' (see below). It may be a Java convention, but this is a Java project :-) and seems to be what others are doing, for better or for worse. https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/solr-nightly/tags https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/drill/tags ( uses 'master') https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/kyuubi/tags https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/systemds/tags ( uses 'nightly' ) https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/hop-web/tags https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/apisix/tags ( uses 'dev' ) https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/syncope-wa/tags https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/submarine/tags Thanks, Robert > > Best, > > Dirk > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 17:49, Robert Munteanu <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > During my work on the Docker Images for the Starter I found out > > that > > building only for tags makes it very hard to test out Docker > > builds. > > > > I have forked the repository and built it using my Docker Hub > > account, > > but that unfortunately requires a paid Docker account, and I think > > we > > should not impose that limit on contributors. > > > > Given a statement from the ASF infra [1] that the DockerHub is not > > an > > official ASF release channel and we can publish images as we see > > fit, I > > would like to propose that we publish the master branch as > > apache/sling:snapshot for each build. > > > > FWIW, you can see the in-progress images at [2]. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > Robert > > > > [1]: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-22533?focusedCommentId=17445463 > > [2]: https://hub.docker.com/r/rombert/org-apache-sling-starter
