[MRELEASE-665] Describe how to release a patched external project

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Auto Closed
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Scholte
• Created: 08/Mar/11 06:29
• Updated: 06/Sep/15 20:45
• Resolved: 06/Sep/15 20:45

Description

When releasing, all dependencies should be of a final version.
If it depends on patched versions of certain projects, you'd have to release those patched versions first to your own repo-manager (if you can't wait for the real release).

For deploying SNAPSHOT's it would be
mvn deploy -DaltDeploymentRepository=id::layout::url

For releasing I think it should be something like:
mvn release:prepare -DtagBase=
mvn release:perform -Darguments="-DaltDeploymentRepository=id::layout::url" -Dgoals=deploy
Also, the version should be based on the latest release version, extended with something like -1-myCompany

I believe this is realistic usecase and it would be great if it could be documented.