[wildfly-dev] Srcdeps in WildFly and WildFly Core

[Juraci Paixão Kröhling]

On 01/26/2017 10:52 AM, Petr Sakar wrote:
> I agree with Brian. PR with SRC dependency *should not* be merged to master branch, that would create problems down the road.
> You can use other branch as base for such merges and related CI

Let me share my experience with using srcdeps in Hawkular.

We've been bitten by this situation, where a srcdeps would be listed as 
a dependency and the release process would eventually fail (and it was 
an ugly failure). This is why there's a feature (on by default, IIRC), 
which fails fast if the release profile is being used.

A good practice in Hawkular Services is to _avoid_ having srcdeps, but 
it's _acceptable_ to have it on master, as long as it's removed by the 
release date. Most of the time, there's no srcdeps in our pom.xml files, 
but when we need it, it allows us to keep moving without asking N 
developers to release the whole dependency chain.

- Juca.