[infinispan-dev] Infinispan Managment Console versioning and releases

Hey guys, A while ago was been talking with Ryan and Tristan about automated releases for Infinispan Management Console. I would like to send the main point for wider audience. Long story short, we were considering different versioning schemes, such as X.Y.Z.SHA1 or using Z as an auto-increment counter for console releases. The main problem we were trying to solve was how to release the management console more often. I would like to propose different approach - Let's stick with a standard versioning (X.Y.Z.[Alpha|Beta|Fina] for releases and X.Y.Z-SNAPSHOT for ongoing work). Then we need to embed SHA1 into the MANIFEST.MF to increase tracability (in other words, here I have an Infinispan build and I need to know which SHA1 was used to build the console). SNAPSHOTs will be pushed into JBoss Repository [1] after each commit. Infinispan master branch will have a SNAPSHOT dependency to the console. The tricky part are releases. Well, at first we need to release the console (I hope we will automate that in Team City). Then we can use the version plugin [2] to update the Infinispan source code to the latest version of the console. Finally, we can release the Infinispan. As a long-term goal, everything will happen inside a single staging repository in Nexus (but that's a long-term goal... first let get this running). If you agree to my proposal, please change the version in the console into 9.0.0-SNAPSHOT and retrigger [3] (automated builds are disabled at the moment). Next, I would kindly ask to look into the build logs [4][5] and give me a hint how to fix it. The NPM plugin is failing with some weird error. Once we are done with that, I will configure a Pull Request builder and release job. Thanks Sebastian [1] https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/ [2] http://www.mojohaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/ [3] http://ci.infinispan.org/viewType.html?buildTypeId=Infinispan_ManagmentCo... [4] http://ci.infinispan.org/viewLog.html?buildId=46542&buildTypeId=Infin... [5] http://ci.infinispan.org/viewLog.html?buildId=46543&buildTypeId=Infin...