Re: [jakartaee-platform-dev] version numbers and release qualifiers

[Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Piotr Żygieło wrote on 1/24/20 8:46 AM:
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 04:02, Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>  In fact, we don't expect specs to be distributed through a Maven
>> repository.
> 
> I was under impression that this thread is mainly about
> https://wiki.eclipse.org/JakartaEE_Maven_Versioning_Rules, where one
> can find:
> 
>> A given technology will commonly produce two artifacts:
>> - an API jar file...
>>  [...] We require API jar files to be published to the Maven central repository.
>> - an implementation jar file...
> 
> As shown above, in JCP world, "EDR" releases were accompanied by api
> jars, with similar qualifiers. That resulted in surprises, that could
> be avoided.

I would expect the API jars to use "software" qualifiers, not "documentation"
qualifiers, e.g., "b1", "m1", "rc1", etc.