We used to publish snapshots to https://repository.apache.org for much that same reason:
i.e: https://repository.apache.org/service/local/repo_groups/snapshots-group/content/org/apache/cloudstack/cloud-console-proxy/4.1.0-SNAPSHOT/cloud-console-proxy-4.1.0-20130125.154919-473.jar However, we moved our builds off of ASF infra, so we lost the ability to publish to repository.a.o. --David On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Nate Gordon <nate.gor...@appcore.com> wrote: > Sorry for not responding sooner, I took a few days off to lay 300 sqft of > tile. > > I have a local Artifactory server that I'm publishing to based on builds > that are triggered from key branches in the ACS repo. I'm not using > something that is publicly available. For CCP, it is primarily the same > codebase, so we rely on that to have a single version of our plugins that > works for both. > > For the reasons why dropping -SNAPSHOT is desired, I don't see git history > divergence being an actual problem. Every maven project has this exact > setup. The deb/rpm issue is more valid, but I feel is a solvable problem > without dropping -SNAPSHOT. > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Nate, >> >> > On 24-Oct-2014, at 2:28 am, Nate Gordon <nate.gor...@appcore.com> wrote: >> > >> > The jars are used when developing plugins outside of the core repo. My >> > company develops plugins which are self contained jars for our customers. >> > We do this without modifying the core code so that we aren't forking ACS >> in >> > the process and to support CCP. >> >> Interesting use-case, how do you get the jars? From which maven repository? >> >> Of the main sources of publicly published jars, I cannot find any >> CloudStack projects or jars (for all official releases); >> http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ccloudstack >> http://mvnrepository.com/search?q=cloudstack >> http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache >> >> In case of ACS, how do you get the jars if you’re not using a published >> repo and extracting jars from it? >> >> In case of CCP, they are not opensource (or that their changes/interfaces >> are documented) or publish jars on a some maven repository (not to mention >> they use the same artifact ID etc), so the only way to get CCP’s jars is to >> get a package tarball, extract the debs/rpms and get the jars. >> >> If in future we decide to do something like publish jars on a public maven >> repository for GA releases, then we can consider adding -SNAPSHOT otherwise >> I would encourage pragmatism over a pedantic approach. 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