[Biojava-dev] maven artifacts

[LAW Andrew]

Andreas,

My *personal* preference would be for *everything* to get tagged rather than some modules and not others. The "agile way" suggests release early and often. I think that is required here rather than hold on until it's all finished and polished. I'd rather see versions 3.0-alpha-1, 3.0-alpha-2 etc. coming out regularly rather than waiting for a final "release" per se.

Obviously it's you guys that own it and decide what goes but it would make downstream life easier for the rest of us (parasites) out here :o}



On 12 Oct 2010, at 18:39, Andreas Prlic wrote:


Picking up from a thread at the tail end of September about current status, it was mentioned that all successful builds get dumped to a biojava maven repository. That's fine and dandy, but is there any chance that the procedure could tag the artifacts with something more permanent than the current 3.0-SNAPSHOT moniker?

sure, should be just a mini-switch in the pom. do you want this for all modules or only some of them?

I ask because we have some code that we would like to punt out to the general public as an early alpha/beta release of the Jensembl API. However, I can't put it onto maven central unless it can be made to rely on something concrete and permanent. If, every time I go back to the biojava repository, what has the same name as the artifact that I built against is now something completely different then I'm stuffed.

ok.



There was mention in September of proposals for publishing (or perhaps I misread that bit). What is the current status and are there plans to punt out a frozen reference version that we can code against whilst the nuts and bolts continue to get refined in the subversion/git/<<insert favourite scm here>> repositories?

We have not agreed on a particular release schedule yet, I will send a release plan out for discussion tonight.

Andreas


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