Re : What's blocking releasing maven-compiler-plugin?

[Julien HENRY <he...@yahoo.fr>]

> De : Stephen Connolly <st...@gmail.com>

> À : Maven Developers List <de...@maven.apache.org>
> Envoyé le : Lun 2 Novembre 2009, 8 h 49 min 47 s
> Objet : Re: What's blocking releasing maven-compiler-plugin?
> 
> 2009/11/1 Jason van Zyl :
> > I think it's akin to the surefire plugin. Where it's been so long that if we
> > release this and people get the automatic updates and something is wrong
> > it's not so fun.
> >
> 
> Well how about we release a 2.1-alpha-1 and up its minimum maven
> version to 2.0.9
> 
> That way anyone with earlier than 2.0.9 will not be able to use the
> alpha and anyone with 2.0.9+ will have a lock-down in place.

+1

> 
> Another way would be to release 2.1-alpha-1 as 2.0.3-alpha-1-for-2.1
> and re-release 2.0.2 as 2.0.4.
> 
> If we stage them in one repository and then promote that repository in
> one go then anyone using 2.0.8- will just use m-c-p 2.0.4 which would
> be identical to 2.0.2, and we can get people with lock-downs to try
> the newer version.

I don't like this solution as it will completly mess up dependency history.

(my 2 cents)

> 
> >
> > Maybe you and Benjamin can sort out a way to stage the plugin and run all
> > the projects on the grid to see if it's all good. A similar strategy could
> > be employed for the surefire plugin. The best we can do is run as many
> > projects as we can with these new plugins to make sure they work in the wild
> > as we've seen in the past that sometimes the releases are not so stellar.
> >
> 
> Yes I agree that this could be a first step.  Then we could try as
> step 2 a 2.1-alpha-1 with the minimum maven version upped to 2.0.9 and
> finally we can roll the 2.1 release with maven 2.0.6 restored as the
> minimum version.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Also, we will need to get surefire out the door.  There are some good
> fixes in that, but let's get compiler out the door first and establish
> a process for that.
> 
> >
> > I'm sure we could find a clean place to inject an override for the default
> > version of the compiler plugin in 3.x and then use that version of Maven to
> > build as many on the grid as we can. Can't think of a better way to test a
> > core plugin to make sure we don't hose anyone.
> >
> > On 2009-11-01, at 12:59 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote:
> >
> >> Now that we have maven-toolchains-plugin released, what is blocking
> >> rolling a release of maven-compiler-plugin?
> >>
> >> Toolchains support has been integrated since r649442. All the
> >> integration tests (3 of them) are passing. I am not seeing any issues
> >> in JIRA which are regressions (i.e. releasing now would probably not
> >> make things worse)
> >>
> >> There are currently 3 critical issues in JIRA:
> >>
> >> MCOMPILER-98 is an issue for plexus-compiler
> >> MCOMPILER-64 is just a higher memory requirement for large compiles with
> >> jdk6u4+
> >> MCOMPILER-43 looks to be a plexus-compiler-eclipse issue
> >>
> >> If all that is somebody to play release manager I'll go running again.
> >> If getting a release requires applying patches or fixing issues I do
> >> not have the cycles at the moment
> >>
> >> -Stephen
> >>
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> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jason
> >
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> > Jason van Zyl
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