On 12 Jan 2009, at 10:54, Juraci Costa wrote: > 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-... > > 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.... > > 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 :-) jbosscache-common-parent 1.3-SNAPSHOT does exist, but only in the snapshots repository and not in the main repository. I know we shouldn't be using snapshots but this had somehow leaked through when 2.1.1.GA was cut. If anything though, you should be using the latest and greatest of the 2.x series (2.2.1.GA), but again I know that that would depend on potentially a new Hibernate release, etc. --