[wildfly-dev] Version ownership (conflict?): Apache Avro

[Sanne Grinovero]

Thanks James! I've sent a PR to restore the previous version.

I'll be checking some more cross-project dependency requirements next weeek.

On 12 August 2017 at 01:08, James Perkins <jperkins at redhat.com> wrote:
> It looks like it came in as part of
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-7908. I'm personally not a big fan of
> these sweeping version updates like this for this exact reason. We've had
> issues with this type of thing before and I do think we need a better
> approach.
>
> IMO we can definitely downgrade this. I also see no other modules that
> depend on it either.
>
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just noticed that the Apache Avro version included in WildFly was
>> upgraded to 1.8.1.
>>
>> This breaks Hibernate Search. It wasn't caught by automated
>> integration tests as this aspect wasn't covered by integration tests
>> within the wildfly codebase - we have them within Hibernate.
>>
>> A quick grep on the module definitions doesn't reveal any other user,
>> and "git blame" seems to suggest it was updated just for the sake of
>> updating some components.. so I'm guessing there is no other
>> stackeholder I should align with?
>>
>> 1# Could we please revert it to 1.7.6, which is what Hibernate Search
>> requires?
>>
>> Alternatively we'll need some ad-hoc coding on Hibernate Search and a
>> new version respin - with all associated risks - just for the sake of
>> updating this.
>>
>> 2# What can we do to prevent such things in the future?
>>
>> I can of course contribute some more integration tests but it's never
>> going to be enough: there will always be more tests "upstream". Could
>> we rather agree on some improved communication process when you all
>> consider updating an indirect dependency?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sanne
>>
>>  - https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-9221
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