[aerogear-dev] WAR files: Release process

[Matthias Wessendorf]

Ok, that's fine with me.

Let's see what the others say


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Karel Piwko <kpiwko at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:22:37 +0200
> Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Karel Piwko <kpiwko at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:16:23 +0200
> > > Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > for WAR files, we won't deploy them to maven central.
> > >
> > > Is there any specific reason why not to deploy them there?
> > >
> >
> > It's really not a library that you program against. Several other 'war'
> > project (e.g. Jenkins) also don't deploy there.
>
> Several other projects do though [1]. Supposing that WAR is downloaded by
> consumers, we'd need to preserve old versions and ensure it can be
> downloaded
> in automated manner (like wget). This burder will grow over time and can be
> easily reduced to zero if WAR is hosted on Maven Central.
>
> I might be a bit biased here, but I think hosting WARs in Maven Central
> should
> be the default. You can easily grab it from there if your using Maven and
> also
> you can profit from Maven ecosystem, for instance use Maven Overlay plugin
> to
> easily build a custom Push Server using your additions.
>
> [1] http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cp%3A%22war%22
>
> >
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I thought about the following:
> > > >
> > > > * I build the WAR file locally and perform a gpg sign
> > > > * upload the WAR file to......
> > > >
> > > > aerogear.org ? (e.g. /dist or /dist/binaries)
> > > >
> > > > Or are there any other suggestions.
> > > >
> > > > -Matthiasq
> > > >
> > >
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