Re: [technology-pmc] publishing milestone builds on maven central

[Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 05/22/2014 02:32 PM, Matthias Sohn wrote:

are we allowed to publish JGit milestone builds on Maven Central or are there any

Eclipse policies disallowing that ?

We are already publishing JGit releases to Maven Central, but I am not sure if it's ok

to also publish milestone builds there.

I don't have an answer, but I'm curious: how do you make distinction between milestone, releases and SNAPSHOTs for JGit as Maven artifacts? Did you set up some versioning conventions and/or do you use different maven repositories?

the maven repositories we use (repo.eclipse.org and maven central) provide only a 

distinction between snapshot and release repositories,

so we use the following naming convention for version numbers

<version> ::= <major>.<minor>.<micro>.<qualifier>

<qualifier> ::= <timestamp>-<postfix>

<postfix> ::= m<number>   are milestones

<postfix> ::= rc<number>   are release candidates

<postfix> ::= r                     are releases

e.g.

3.3.2.201404171909-r

3.4.0.201405051725-m7

3.4.0.201405211411-rc1 

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Matthias