Re: [tycho-user] Automatically keeping version numbers in sync

[Barrie Treloar <baerrach@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Igor Fedorenko <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did not look at automating this for maybe three years now, but last
> time I checked maven-release-plugin was basically single hardcoded
> release workflow and required some major changes to accommodate tycho
> projects at all and likely complete rewrite to provide proper support.
> At the same time, it literally takes me 3 minutes to do m2e or tycho
> release manually [1], and this includes making myself a nice cup of
> coffee. For me, spending time on better release procedure simply does
> not make sense, but your situation may of course be different.
>
> [1]
> https://docs.sonatype.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Staging+and+releasing+new+M2Eclipse+release

Yup, we have semi-technical release managers doing the release for us
to isolate "works on developer" box problems.

Currently having them edit 3 files (both on release and afterwards) is
error prone and time consuming.
This may be exasperated by having one big release that does everything
instead of smaller ones.

I'll have to re-evaluate what we do.