[Hawkular-dev] is it time for a bom? or for version definitions in parent pom?

[Lukas Krejci]

I think this might be it:

http://www.mojohaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/display-property-updates-mojo.html

On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 17:50:59 Lucas Ponce wrote:
> > Actually, this does not imply circular workflow, just a painful one :)
> > 
> > 1) I want to release a new version of inventory and decide what its
> > version
> > is
> > gonna be.
> > 
> > 2) I update parent POM with the new inventory version and release the
> > parent POM. Note that at this point in time no one is using this version
> > of parent and that inventory hasn't been released yet.
> > 
> > 3) I update inventory with the new parent POM version and release it with
> > the intended version.
> > 
> > So to break the circle outlined by Peter, you have to basically introduce
> > a
> > race condition and also double the number of releases we do.
> > 
> > Note that the above workflow would work with a BOM, too.
> 
> Out of curiosity, then how other projects works ? Can we adopt some best
> practice to reduce our complexity ?
> 
> There are projects using bom and parent, and they have versions on both.
> 
> If at the end of the story, there is a manual step of synchronization (i.e.
> I have to go to a place a look which version I need), I would like to see
> if we can get benefit in someway without adding circular dependencies or
> painful process.
> 
> With the srcdeps plugin, we added an additional feature that helped in a
> sense.
> 
> Is there a possibility to sync some property versions without entering on
> the circular dependency ?
> 
> I am brainstorming, but what about a repo where we put these versions, and
> we can have just a plugin to warn if we are using correct ones ? (without
> having to place it on parent).
> 
> I.e. In alerts I'm using a parent X and bus Y, and this plugin can check
> from the repo that my versions are not updated.
> 
> So, manual step is not avoid but we are warned that for alpha8 target
> versions are a,b,c.
> 
> When I release a new alerts, I can update that in the repo.
> 
> Thoughts ?
> 
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