[ARROW-17628] [CI][Packaging][Java] Publish latest nightly with SNAPSHOT version

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 10.0.0
• Component/s: Java, Packaging
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/32871
• Assignee: Raúl Cumplido
• Reporter: Raúl Cumplido
• Created: 06/Sep/22 10:52
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:52
• Resolved: 15/Sep/22 20:53

Description

I am trying to build the arrow-cookbooks for Java with the latest version published of the Nightlies. Currently in order to use the latest nightly we have to specify the latest version, i.e: 10.0.0.dev234

In order to find out which one is the latest version published we have to parse the HTML on https://nightlies.apache.org/arrow/java/org/apache/arrow/arrow-c-data/ (or other packages) and find out which one is the latest as discussed on the documentation:

https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/docs/source/developers/java/building.rst#installing-from-apache-nightlies

I propose we publish the latest nightly both with its unique version (i.e: 10.0.0.dev234) and with 10.0.0-SNAPSHOT to make it easier for upstream automation.

Another proposal would be to add a VERSIONS metatada file with the latest published version but from some investigation on other Java projects publishing nightlies as SNAPSHOT seems to be the most common use case.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #14135