Norbert, Thank you for making this happen Il giorno ven 1 feb 2019, 20:16 Norbert Kalmar <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> Hi ZooKeeper devs, > > As you might have noticed, maven is gaining grip on the ZooKeeper > processes. Enrico, for example, just did a proof of concept on checking PRs > with a maven build as well. > > Releasing 3.5.5 with maven would be nice, BUT! Here is my personal, > non-binding take on this: we shouldn't delay 3.5.5 just to do the release > with maven. +1 zookeeper 3.5.5 should be released as soon as we have a stable version We will continue to keep ant and maven configurations in sync. Enrico Multiple reasons for that: > > - We can always have a new release with maven basically anytime. 3.5 stable > has been postponed enough already. > > - We should make sure everything works as backward compatible as possible. > For example, as one of the final tests, I plan to do a local install of > maven built ZK, update the version in a project dependent on ZK, like > HBase, and see how easy it goes. > > - Documents and HowTos should be updated properly. > > - Lot of Jenkins jobs and processes to migrate. Let's not rush this. > > > The PR for the assembly / release is open for a while now ( > https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/776), it is basically the last PR > on finalizing the migration to maven build (but definitely not the last > step, see my points above). But even on this PR, there are some > conversations on how the final release should be done. Feel free to join > the discussion! > > If you have any questions, concerns, ideas, thoughts - don't hold back :) > > Regards, > Norbert >
