| Re: [ee4j-pmc] Deploying snapshots to the Eclipse Maven repo |
Why should anybody want to publish a snapshot that does not contain any changes? From: ee4j-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ee4j-pmc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wayne Beaton This topic came up on the recent EE4J PMC call. The following questions will be reflected in the minutes:
Here are my answers: We require an agreement with Oracle use to use the javax namespace. At present, we do not have an agreement in place, so we're limited in terms of what we're allowed to do. Getting this agreement in place is a high priority item, but--as you can imagine--there are a lot of high priority items that need to be addressed as we work through this period of transition. Your frustrations are understood, and your ongoing patience is appreciated. At present, the publication of binary artifacts which include changes (or additions) to APIs in the javax namespace cannot be made available for general use. Changes to the implementation are permitted, but not to the APIs. My understanding is that this limitation applies to repo.eclipse.org. It is okay for incompatible changes to be created in the source code (i.e. in Git repository branches). Snapshots and releases can publish updates to binary artifacts as long as they make no modifications (or additions) to APIs within the javax namespace. HTH, Wayne On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 1:57 AM, Christian Kaltepoth <christian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Dear PMC, the JAX-RS API project just configured the Jenkins instance to automatically deploy snapshots to the Eclipse Snapshot repository. See #634 and #637 for details. After the first deployment it was mentioned that releasing snapshots may be problematic, because the Contribution Agreement between Oracle and the Eclipse Foundation hasn't been signed yet. To be honest, I'm quite surprised that this may be an issue. Especially because there were some initial discussion about snapshot deployment on the various mailing lists and nobody mentioned that this may be an issue. Therefore, I would kindly ask the PMC to share some details about the current legal situation and whether deployment of snapshots may be an issue. Best regards Christian
-- Wayne Beaton Director of Open Source Projects The Eclipse Foundation |