[Hawkular-dev] Timestamped SNAPSHOTs hard to use

Hi *, I tried to use $subj for the first time today, and I must say $subj did not meet my expectations. Namely, the timestamps and buildNumbers are generated at the instant of deployment of the given artifact, which may lead to distinct timestampts of artifacts of the same group and same deploy operation. So, when I want to use the latest timestamped SNAPSHOT of Alerts in Hawkular, there is no single timestamped version that I could use for all Alerts artifacts that I manage using the property ${version.org.hawkular.alerts}. To use the latest timestamped version, I actually can remove the <version.org.hawkular.alerts> property altogether. I have to put the latest 0.4.0-SNAPSHOT literal to into all managed alerts artifacts (https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular/blob/master/pom.xml#L154 and https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular/blob/master/pom.xml#L161) then run mvn versions:lock-snapshots -Psnapshots and voila, it resolves the versions as follows: <dependency> <groupId>org.hawkular.alerts</groupId> <artifactId>hawkular-alerts-actions-email</artifactId> <version>0.4.0-20150817.111158-17</version> <type>war</type> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hawkular.alerts</groupId> <artifactId>hawkular-alerts-rest</artifactId> <version>0.4.0-20150817.111150-18</version> <type>war</type> </dependency> Here, you can clearly see that the timestamped versions are not the same. This guarantees the reproducibility of the builds, but I would not call it practical. Manual maintenance of these scattered version numbers will be error prone and cumbersome. One can use mvn versions plugin to handle the versions. http://www.mojohaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/examples/advancing-dependen... Can anybody see a way how to make the timestamped snapshots easier to use? Thanks, Peter