[jboss-dev] Maven and non-existent versions of jboss-cache artifacts

[Juraci Costa]

All,

Is there anything I can read about how we publish artifacts to the main maven repository and maybe suggest some change to that? I'm asking that because it is not the first time I see a mismatch between version numbers in the public maven repository. So, if we follow some guide when publishing it to the main repository, we need to make certain to not use SNAPSHOT (which are temporal, AFAIK), and use GA's instead. 

Example:
Hibernate tag 3.3.1.GA points to jbosscache-core 2.1.1.GA
https://svn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/core/tags/hibernate-3.3.1.GA/cache-jbosscache2/pom.xml

JBoss Cache core 2.1.1.GA says that its parent is jbosscache-common-parent 1.3-SNAPSHOT
http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/cache/jbosscache-core/2.1.1.GA/jbosscache-core-2.1.1.GA.pom

But it doesn't exists. Only 1.3 or 1.4 are available. 
http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/org/jboss/cache/jbosscache-common-parent/

To fix a local build, I can change my local jbosscache-core-2.1.1.GA.pom to point to jbosscache-common-parent 1.3 or 1.4, but we would also need to change it on our Hudson machines. Although possible, this sounds wrong, as the builds should be reproducible without manual changes to the environment :-) 

- Juca.