[aerogear-dev] WAR files: Release process

Sebastien Blanc scm.blanc at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 07:48:28 EDT 2013


What about making our WAR also available on bintray https://bintray.com/ ?


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>wrote:

> 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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