[jira] [Comment Edited] (BEAM-810) Beam's uses of archetypes are problematic

["Kenneth Knowles (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Kenneth Knowles edited comment on BEAM-810 at 10/25/16 3:14 AM:
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PR [#1181|https://github.com/apache/incubator-beam/pull/1181] should fix one issue created by the use of {{mvn verify}}. Perhaps a similar approach will work for the archetypes. It is unfortunate to do so much useless work.


was (Author: kenn):
PR [#1181|https://github.com/apache/incubator-beam/pull/1181] should fix one issue created by the use of `mvn verify`. Perhaps a similar approach will work for the archetypes. It is unfortunate to do so much useless work.

> Beam's uses of archetypes are problematic
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BEAM-810
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-810
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: build-system
>    Affects Versions: Not applicable
>            Reporter: Daniel Halperin
>
> * Using a version range in the archetype pom.xml is inaccurate, because we don't have a stable API. We can't actually expect an older version to work as we make backwards-incompatible changes.
> * In PR #936, a decision was made to pin the version of the archetype. This requires manual changes to update many places (archetype-resources), which breaks the release process in a few different ways. See [BEAM-806].
> * Travis uses `mvn verify`, not `mvn install` -- so archetypes are not properly tested and instead we're actually picking up the SNAPSHOT archetypes deployed the prior night (IIRC).
> * There was some other issue with parallelizing maven where archetypes are not properly marked as depending on "you can't test the archetype until you've installed the examples packages".
> * We're not actually testing that the archetype-generated projects actually compile. [BEAM-641].
> This is all pretty ugly. Suggestions wanted.



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