[jira] [Created] (MRM-1981) Snapshot artifact promotion

["Alexandru Ionita (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Alexandru Ionita created MRM-1981:
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             Summary: Snapshot artifact promotion
                 Key: MRM-1981
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRM-1981
             Project: Archiva
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: rest services
    Affects Versions: 2.2.3
            Reporter: Alexandru Ionita


I'm not sure if this has already been taken into account, but this is something we would like to achieve using Apache Archiva:
 * a snapshot build is published to the snapshot repository;
 * the snapshot passes the integration and QA testing;
 * the delivery team qualifies the current SNAPSHOT as a release candidate and triggers a copy of the artifact to a staging repository (promotion to staging);
 * after further testing in a production-like environment, the artifact is promoted to the release repository.

Apparently, there is no imperative functionality implemented for promoting an artifact. There is though a functionality that mirrors a snapshot repository into a staging, but that pulls all the snapshots into the staging repository, or at least this is my understanding. However, we would like to manually (API calls) add only particular snapshots to a staging repository.

The rest call to copy the artifact to a staging repository fails due to the artifact is classified as a snapshot.

A workaround is to drop the snapshot restriction on the snapshot repository and remove the SNAPSHOT suffix from the version.
 



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