[aerogear-dev] AeroGear January sync release postponed

[Karel Piwko]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:17:00 +0100
Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:

> On Monday, January 20, 2014, Karel Piwko <kpiwko at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:27:22 +0100
> > Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Karel Piwko
> > > <kpiwko at redhat.com<javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > > +1 on postponing to a later point. If ready by April, should be fine
> > as
> > > > > well (my opinion). Bruno had a good point, that the postponed release
> > > > > should not stop us from releasing (unstable) snapshots for testing
> > > > reasons.
> > > > > I like that: Release often, release early.
> > > >
> > > > What is actually an (unstable) snapshot? Could you shed more light on
> > that?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I'd say a regular snapshot, from master branch, released to the snapshot
> > > repo
> >
> > That's good until another project(s) will rely on it. You update snaphot
> > and
> > other projects will get broken without any option to avoid that. It would
> > be
> > much better to make snapshots stable in time, as I described in previous
> > email.
> 
> 
> Well, this is all early and understood, not why thats a problem, when
> DEVELOPING something...
> 

That's right. But when testing something it is a problem. We don't have a
bandwidth to update tests every time something get's broken due to new
SNAPSHOT being released to repository. OTOH, updating tests after all projects
are released as Final is too late. I'm looking for some model in between to let
us keep pace with devs.

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> >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Namely, is the "snapshot" a set of micro/minor releases of Aerogear
> > > > projects?
> > > > Or do you plan to release every Aerogear project as -SNAPSHOT? Or
> > > > introducing
> > > > -milestone/.Mx/alpha/beta/cr/timestamp/any-qualifier-you-like into
> > version
> > > > strings?
> > > >
> > > > I don't think 2/ option is a good idea, especially if SNAPSHOTs are
> > > > released
> > > > early & often. That would be a maintenance/testing nightmare, if
> > various
> > > > SNAPSHOTs of the same project cannot be distinguished from each other
> > and
> > > > used
> > > > within other projects.
> > > >
> > > > Karel
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