[cle-release-team] 2.9.x build failures

[Anthony Whyte]

Assuming the persona of a first-time dev interested in downloading and installing 2.9.x I blew away my local .m2 repo (all of it) and then checked out 2.9.x.  I then attempted to build it with Maven 3.0.4 but encountered core-deploy build failures.  I then checked Confluence and the 2.9.x release notes but there is no mention of a Maven version limitation (2.2.1).  Nor are there at present any 2.9 installation instructions (I'll assume that they are on the way and are simply not in place yet).  So I checked Nightly2 (which is cheating), reverted to 2.2.1 and commenced a new build.  

The build failed again on the mailsender assembly.   The 1.7.1-SNAPSHOT assembly inherits org.sakaiproject.master version 2.9.0-rc03 via its mailsender-base-pom <parent>.  rc03 has yet to be deployed to Maven Central and it ain't in the snapshot repo (expected), hence the build failure.[3]

I suspect my 2.2.1 build issue is because I tried to perform a build as Matt is deploying rc03 but I thought I'd bring my experience to your attention--particularly as regards the install guide which is at present not newbie friendly.

Cheers,

Anth 


[1] [INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.sakaiproject:master:pom:2.9.0-rc03' in repository sakai-maven2-snapshots (http://source.sakaiproject.org/maven2-snapshots)
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/sakaiproject/master/2.9.0-rc03/master-2.9.0-rc03.pom

[2] https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/sakaiproject/mailsender/mailsender-base/1.7.1-SNAPSHOT/mailsender-base-1.7.1-20121102.024725-17.pom

[3] http://search.maven.org/#search|gav|1|g%3A%22org.sakaiproject%22%20AND%20a%3A%22master%22