> Apache release rules were made for first-class projects. I would like to > propose simplifying voting rules for in-jvm-dtest-api project [1].
I am not sure the PMC can simply vote away the ASF release rules here. But it should be possible to implement the proposal by stepping away from what the ASF considers a release and work with "nightlies" or snapshots. The purpose of an "ASF release" has little value to in-jvm-dtest-api, IIUC. For example you can't put artifacts into a public maven repository without a formal release vote. AFAIK the vote process is there for the sake of the legal protections the ASF extends to all its projects, over any notion of technical quality of the release cut. And we are not supposed to be including binaries in the source code artifacts, at least not for anything that runtime code depends on. Solutions to this could be… - allowing snapshot versions of test scope dependencies*, downloaded from the ASF's snapshot repository⁽¹⁾ - making an exception for a binary if only used in test scope (i believe this is ok), - move in-jvm-dtest-api out of ASF (just have it as a github project, and publish as needed to a maven repo) You could also keep using `mvn release:prepare` to cut the versions, but just not deploy them to ASF's distribution channels. This whole area of ASF procedures is quite extensive, so i'd definitely appreciate being correctly contradicted :-) My vote would be to take the approach of using the snapshot repository. Semantic versioning has limited value here, and you would be able to have a jenkins build push the latest in-jvm-dtest-api artifact into the snapshot repository using a uniqueVersion so that it can be referenced safely in the build.xml (avoiding having to check the jar file into the cassandra/lib/ folder). regards, Mick ⁽¹⁾ https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
