[cle-release-team] bind to stable master

[Matthew Jones]

I'm about to propose tonight that we get rid of most indies entirely, aside
from maybe kernel and the 10 other projects that have no dependencies on
anything other than kernel.

Basically everything on the top of the list:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/REL/Indie+release+order+-+2.9

We can't bind the snapshots to fixed versions of master because the
properties are defined in the master. And the api and the implementation
are the same version. And we don't monitor api changes anyway, so many are
modified in the minor releases.

In 2.7 and 2.8, these properties were all maintained in the master, 4
pure-poms and in the local projects. It seemed like centralizing them would
be easier, but it doesn't seem like there's any build process that works
for both the organizations that customize the release (most of the SCAs
that are doing this release work anyway) and the ones that don't customize
the release.

The .x branch is supposed to be SNAPSHOTS but we shouldn't have all of the
properties and dependencyManagement defined in master. This was just a
convenience because so few people are actually working on Sakai and even
fewer are releasing EVERY project.

Just trying to revert all of these master parents tonight is giving me a
headache.

Its super easy to release 1 tool/project. It's exhausting releasing 30.

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to propose that we bind projects for 2.9 and 2.10 to a stable
> master version, not a snapshot.
>
> This will reduce the amount of setup required for Jenkins builds (we can
> remove the pre/post build steps), plus it aligns our Maven use with that of
> Jasig:
> https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JSG/Using+Maven+for+your+Jasig+project
>
> This is what I was talking about at the conference when I suggested the
> release process was too complex.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
>
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