[Building Sakai] 2.9: How to cut a custom release

[David Horwitz]

Hi All,

Here is the case we run a custom msub branch of Samigo - effectively we 
msub a later version (in 2.8 we ran sam 2.9 and in 2.9 it will likely be 
based on 2.10) that include new features we're contributing back. We 
reversion this (2.10.0-UCT) and cut regular releases from our jenkins 
build. The reversioning and cutting stable releases are required parts 
of our deployment in order to ensure that the correct code is deployed 
and to track changes etc.


OK now in 2.9 we have to inherit from master - this causes problems 
because the released master defines versions for samigo api jars that 
are incorrect causing the build to fail. I can see no reliable way round 
this other than having a UCT release of master for every Samigo build (a 
master that would only be used for release purposes) am I missing 
something here?

D