Thanks Marshall, Things are clearer now :) 2010/6/4 Marshall Schor <[email protected]>
> > > On 6/3/2010 3:20 AM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: > > Hi Marshall, > > I was just writing an email about that :) I was reading past (email) > > documentation regarding whole building procedure [1] so I wondered if we > can > > get also other UIMA artifacts (whole uimaj, uima-as and sandbox) to such > a > > repo and how can we do it (in more detail). > > > > Once you set up your workstation with the right things to use "mvn > deploy", it's as easy as doing mvn deploy :-). > > > As you said and reading [2] with Hudson we could get this automatically > (in > > Apache Clerezza we also have this automatic deploy of snapshots) but at > the > > moment I don't know who can deploy UIMA artifacts to SNAPSHOT and how. > > > > Any committer can deploy, as far as I know. You do have to follow the > instructions posted earlier, in getting a repository login, I believe. > Ok, I will inspect that > > One reason for this is also to permit other Apache projects to "use" UIMA > > artifacts without having to specify m2-incubating-repository [3] which is > > considered external (and consequently problematic for releasing purpose). > > > > We have to remember that "Snapshots" are temporary, and infra has been > known to "clean up" snapshots by deleting *all* of them. They are to be > used for testing etc., during development, only, because they haven't > been voted on, etc. > I didn't know snapshots get removed from time to time, good to know. Obviously is fair to rely on releases only :) > > Once we "release", then, sure, other projects could easily depend on the > jars we release. The plan (as I have imagined it) is to deploy all the > jars (and poms) to the repo as part of the release process; they would > then be uploaded to maven central. > > In addition, we would still do assemblies of things for uimaj, uima-as, > uima-cpp. I'm thinking that for add-ons, we would release those > separately, individually. > I'm +1 for separate releases of addons. Thanks again. Tommaso
