[platform-releng-dev] Plans to build two streams ... parent pom to chang

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Team, 

From my local tests, N-builds are now
ok, so would like to start building "Neon 4.6". After tonight's
N-build, I plan to change the parent pom to "4.6" (instead of
4.5).

AND ... this will break the build until
all other poms that refer to it, make the change also, to "4.6".


If anyone feels strongly there is a
better time to coordinate this change, please comment in Bug 469765
- Prep for 4.6 (Neon) and 4.5 (Mars) maintenance builds 

I do not plan to prepare paths for all
other repositories, as some people have done in the past. (I think a global
search and replace will not be too much harder.) If anyone wants to volunteer
to create patches for everyone, that's fine. (But, I think of limited value
... be sure to say if I am wrong.) 

Question/proposal: In the past, we've
not incremented the parent pom for maintenance. That is, have not changed
it to "4.5.1" instead of "4.5". There is no strong
reason to, that I know of, except that "maven development" normally
would. I am thinking we are getting experienced enough with maven development,
that we could and probably should. I know some people depend on parent
pom to "build on top" of what we build, and seems it would be
easier/better, if/when people wanted to 
continue building against 4.5 vs. deliberately
building against 4.5.1. Again, if any strong opinions, please comment in
bug 469765. Otherwise, we'll see how 'master' goes, and then start maintenance
work first thing next week. 

Thanks,