It does help when projects have frequent timestamped releases in maven. We did that in PicketLink leading to v2.5.0.alpha1 and then between alpha1 and beta1 and so on.

On 11/12/2013 05:02 AM, Boleslaw Dawidowicz wrote:
Snapshots are wrong mainly because maven repo is configured to automatically purge them… which leads to broken builds. I think time stamped non snapshot releases would be something in between - with tag and so on but just light and quick to provide. 

On 11 Nov 2013, at 19:38, Bill Burke <bburke@redhat.com> wrote:

I've always hated consuming snapshots because people don't normally tell 
you how to reproduce them.  Especially if you're trying to track down a 
bug.  For example, Wildfly does not allow snapshots.

On 11/11/2013 1:01 PM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
What's wrong with snapshots?

I want it yesterday - and for the future I'll probably more often than not use timestamped versions of KC in the "other project" I'm working on - so it would be rather handy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Burke" <bburke@redhat.com>
To: keycloak-dev@lists.jboss.org
Sent: Monday, 11 November, 2013 5:45:00 PM
Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Maven repository

I can't stand snapshots.  But we're releasing something in 3 weeks.
Well, I want to.

On 11/11/2013 10:14 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
It would be great if we could get Maven repository for Keycloak soon so
that we could release a timestamped version.
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