[Biojava-dev] maven artifacts

[Andreas Prlic]

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> 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.
>

good point


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> 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}
>
>
we are a democracy here and we do listen to feedback ;-)

A



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