[jboss-dev] Dependencies

[Adrian Brock]

You should also be able to monitor this JIRA issue
and its subtasks if people are doing a proper job. ;-)

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5121

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 23:30 +0100, Adrian Brock wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 17:33 -0500, Paul Gier wrote:
> > Ok, I will work on this on the branch.  Is there any way we can have a 
> > dependency freeze for a couple days or something, so I can update all the 
> > dependencies to match?  One of the issues I have is that every time I change 
> > dependencies in the pom, the versions change again in build-thirdparty so I get 
> > stuck being constantly out of date.
> 
> That's going to be pretty difficult since we're all working
> towards RC1 by producing RC1/GAs of our own sub-projects.
> 
> e.g. I'm trying to get the final Beta out of the all 
> Microcontainer stuff so we can then get on to the final 
> bug fixes/tasks for RC1/GA
> 
> I'd suggest three things:
> 
> 1) If anybody changes build-thirdparty.xml, then send a message to list
> (copy Paul as well to get his attention :-).
> 
> 2) Paul monitors build-thirdparty.xml
> http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbossas/trunk/build/build-thirdparty.xml?view=log
> That will catch people not doing (1) and it is a least an indication
> that something changed, even if it might require looking at the
> dependencies of what changed to get the full picture.
> 
> 3) You should be able to get most of the changes by doing an svn merge
> of the diff between 70847 (the revision at the start of your branch)
> and "head".
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