Re: usage of maven release plugin (releasing a branch)

2007-10-31 Thread Ionut Scutaru
Actually it was a typo in my mail.. our releases have the form of 1.0.0.Wxx (as in 1.0.0.W44) Would this be ok ? Michael McCallum-3 wrote: I would highly recommend that you tag your projects X.Y and when you build branches introduce the .Z maven treats the -SSS specially and makes it

usage of maven release plugin (releasing a branch)

2007-10-30 Thread Ionut Scutaru
Hi guys, We have a multi-module project; we are using 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT as version for every module. We are trying to have a release at the end of every week, so our releases get the following form: 1.0.0-Wxx. In time we realized we need to branch the project before releasing it so we have some time

Re: usage of maven release plugin (releasing a branch)

2007-10-30 Thread Ionut Scutaru
Actually it's working fine... I was able to do the branch, after many hours of pain... The problem that I noticed is that , if there is even a small problem during the release:branch, I'm being left with all the changes commited in Subversion. Of course, mvn release:rollback doesn't work so I'm

Re: usage of maven release plugin (releasing a branch)

2007-10-30 Thread Michael McCallum
I would highly recommend that you tag your projects X.Y and when you build branches introduce the .Z maven treats the -SSS specially and makes it less e.g. X.Y.Z-A X.Y.Z which obviously causes odd behaviour.. I use versions like 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and patches being builds off branches being

Re: usage of maven release plugin (releasing a branch)

2007-10-30 Thread Ionut Scutaru
This is the error I'm getting when doing a mvn release:rollback (after a mvn release:branch). Did anybody encountered this specific error before ? .. [INFO] [INFO] Building Maven 2 Example [INFO]

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-27 Thread Roland Asmann
Jim, Sure we can work on that together. If you don't mind, I'll contact you on that privately (don't need to send every single e-mail over the list). I'll let you know when I start things up on my end, feel free to do the same! On Thursday 26 April 2007 22:21, Crossley, Jim wrote: Thanks

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-27 Thread Roland Asmann
On Thursday 26 April 2007 22:38, Crossley, Jim wrote: Hi. Rapha l Pi roni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] is this dumb? Nope. Definitely not dumb! do that need a enhancement jira? Yep. http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-226 Not sure about this though.. I think it should be

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-27 Thread Emmanuel Venisse
I'll look at the issue created by Jim, but it was in my planning to implement the branch creation in the next month. Emmanuel Roland Asmann a écrit : Jim, Sure we can work on that together. If you don't mind, I'll contact you on that privately (don't need to send every single e-mail over

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-27 Thread Heinrich Nirschl
On 4/27/07, Emmanuel Venisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll look at the issue created by Jim, but it was in my planning to implement the branch creation in the next month. Emmanuel There is another, slightly related issue. From time to time, you want to merge the bug fixes from the

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-27 Thread Roland Asmann
Branching (as I've stated a couple of time now) is an issue, which I feel can and should be automated. However, the merging of code is something that I feel should be left with manual intervention. Some bugs that have been fixed in a branch, may have been solved in the head already by e.g.

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-27 Thread Heinrich Nirschl
On 4/27/07, Roland Asmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Branching (as I've stated a couple of time now) is an issue, which I feel can and should be automated. However, the merging of code is something that I feel should be left with manual intervention. Some bugs that have been fixed in a branch,

Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Crossley, Jim
I used the release plugin to successfully release version 2.0.2.1 of our project. We continued working on the HEAD targeting version 2.0.3 while QA tested 2.0.2.1. To address bugs reported against that release, we created a 2.0.2 branch in CVS. We applied our fixes there. Now it's time to

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Heinrich Nirschl
On 4/26/07, Crossley, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used the release plugin to successfully release version 2.0.2.1 of our project. We continued working on the HEAD targeting version 2.0.3 while QA tested 2.0.2.1. To address bugs reported against that release, we created a 2.0.2 branch in

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Wayne Fay
How did you use the release plugin? Unless I'm mistaken, proper use of the plugin will result in a release being generated with fixed version number, commit to SCM, then poms updated back to SNAPSHOT and committed to SCM again. I'm not currently using the release plugin myself so I'm not

RE: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Trevor Spackman
: Releasing a branch? How did you use the release plugin? Unless I'm mistaken, proper use of the plugin will result in a release being generated with fixed version number, commit to SCM, then poms updated back to SNAPSHOT and committed to SCM again. I'm not currently using the release plugin myself so I'm

RE: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Crossley, Jim
-Original Message- From: Trevor Spackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:12 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: Releasing a branch? I'm using the release plugin on a very regular basis, and it makes things very smooth. When you release 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT, the plugin creates

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Roland Asmann
Hi Jim, I've been reading the replies you got, and I feel most of them didn't really understand your problem. I'm using the release-plugin as well, but I'll admit right away that I haven't tried it on branches yet. I believe it wasn't really thought for that though. At least, not

RE: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Trevor Spackman
: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:13 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Releasing a branch? Hi Jim, I've been reading the replies you got, and I feel most of them didn't really understand your problem. I'm using the release-plugin as well, but I'll admit right away that I haven't tried it on branches

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Roland Asmann
As I see it, you just described the only solution that works. I may be wrong here, so if any of the maven-programmers think I am: please DO tell me! No matter how you assign the version-numbers, fact remains that maven can not 'automatically' handle branching. I feel that there should be a

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Heinrich Nirschl
version, in this case the version has to be manually updated on the branch. Both approaches work, but there is some manual version editing in both. Once the branching is done, the release plugin works fine on the branch (for releasing further maintenance releases) and on the trunk (for releasing

Re: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Raphaël Piéroni
the branching is done, the release plugin works fine on the branch (for releasing further maintenance releases) and on the trunk (for releasing the next major release). The manual update is only necessary once per branch. - To unsubscribe, e

RE: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Crossley, Jim
Message- From: Heinrich Nirschl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:06 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Releasing a branch? On 4/26/07, Roland Asmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I see it, you just described the only solution that works. I may be wrong here, so

RE: Releasing a branch?

2007-04-26 Thread Crossley, Jim
Hi. Rapha l Pi roni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] is this dumb? Nope. do that need a enhancement jira? Yep. http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-226 Thanks, Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For