My opinion is that we should merge only the projects related to the Grails distribution. Projects needed to build the forge web application can stay in another repository.
Gianluca Sartori -- https://dueuno.com On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 at 15:59, James Daugherty <jdaughe...@jdresources.net.invalid> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > One of the issues we found as part of our release process is that the > projects: > > grails-forge-core > grails-forge-cli > grails-cli > > exist in the grails-forge repo. While they exist in a separate repo > (grails-forge), we still have to produce a combined source & binary > distribution with these artifacts for any grails-core release. This is ASF > policy. Having a separate repo complicates the release workflow for grails: > > 1. We have to provide instructions on how to compile both core & forge from > a source zip. > 2. Those instructions ideally use the same build process we use in CI. > Since we publish to a shared maven repo, this is currently not possible > without a custom build script or change to the local code to publish to > maven local. > 3. We have to manage a grails release across multiple tags, repos, and > workflows. > > #1 was raised by the groovy PMC as a concern and #2 makes this > non-trivial. The concern raised by the groovy PMC is likely to act as a > blocker to future releases if we do not address this (it's an ASF > requirement). For this reason, I'd like to discuss merging some or all of > grails-forge into core. If we merge some, it would only be the projects > that are used in a grails-core release (listed above). If we merge all ,it > would include the netty, api, etc projects. Even though these projects are > only used by start.grails.org. > > What are people's thoughts on merging? Should we merge all or only the > ones we need as part of a grails-core release? > > For my thoughts: I think merging all of the projects is better because we > know some end users fork grails-forge and it would be more convenient for > them to fork one repository instead of 2. Basically, by merging partially, > it makes our life easier, and their life harder. By merging both, we keep > it simple for everyone.
