[aerogear-dev] Jenkins Java client - fork?

Matthias Wessendorf matzew at apache.org
Fri Jun 2 01:57:42 EDT 2017


Ali, Wei,

if we fork it, I'd strongly suggest to use the aerogear Github org, not the
feedhenry one. It feels a bit weird using two different GH orgs for one
project and its fork/dependency

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>
wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I just replied to Wei's mail, which addresses a similar concern. If a
> dependency is not properly maintained, and released, there is always room
> for that kinda stuff.
> If we do it, we should be doing it w/ different packages (e.g.
> org.aerogear.com.offbytwo.jenkins), as a last resort :-)
>
> I'd suggest to get in touch w/ the maintainer, and explain him, that we
> are interested in helping, and would also like to have frequent releases :)
> Perhaps that's the first strategy, before going hard on a fork - that has
> the risk of being always different than the rest of the usptream community.
>
>
> -M
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Ali Ok <aliok at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In order to make our Digger Java client working as we like, we needed to
>> make changes in the underlying Jenkins Java client [1].
>> We sent a PR, but we don't know when the project owner will merge it. So,
>> for testing purposes of our own, we would like to release our fork of
>> Jenkins Java client in a snapshot repository.
>>
>> What do you say? Any other and better approach?
>>
>> Where can we publish the snapshots of our fork?
>>
>> Note: The project owner is a kind guy and will perhaps publish a snapshot
>> release for us after merging our PR, but we cannot rely on that workflow
>> for long time for other needed changes.
>>
>> --
>>
>> ALI OK
>>
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