Hi Everyone, As we discussed in last week's weekly meeting, we have a desire to merge grails-cache into grails-core. We want to continue to merge repositories to simplify our release strategy and reduce the time to publish artifacts (so we can spend time on developing and not releasing).
Recall that the current release process works like this: 1. Pre-release grails core (publish to temporary repo) 2. Release grails-data-mapping 3. Pre-release grails core (publish to temporary repo) to pick up data mapping version 4. Release grails-views 5. Pre-release grails-core (publish to temporary repo) to pick up grails-views version 6. Release grails-geb 7. Pre-release grails-core (publish to temporary repo) to pick up grails-geb version 8. Release grails-cache 9. Pre-release grails-core (publish to temporary repo) to pick up grails-cache version 10. Release grails-gradle-plugin 11. Pre-release grails-core (publish to temporary repo) to pick up grails-gradle-plugin verison 12. Release grails-profiles 13. Release grails-core with the included grails-profiles Because so many of these repositories refer to other repositories in this list, these steps ensure the following: - We don't depend on a prior unreleased version - We release all artifacts with a consistent version - The artifacts do not depend on a snapshot version in their POM. Prior to the merger of repositories, there used to be 30+ of these. We are now down to 7 repositories. This took the release time down significantly, and it continues to decrease as we merge them. Each step above can take 10-20 minutes as they are composed of smaller steps not mentioned here. Given this overview, and the benefit of simplifying our release process: is anyone currently against merging grails-cache into grails-core? I'm currently in favor of this as I'd rather spend time working on Grails, not on Grails' Build & Release processes. Regards, James
