Testing a staged release of project dependency
One of most important things, if not the most important in software, is release process. There are whole books written about “shipping software” and software release is one of key parts which needs to happen in order to deliver our programs to end users. In this very short post I will give you a short tip about how to do a test drive of a release which is not published yet. One of main principles of maven central is “what goes there, stays there”, meaning that anything which becomes public will stay public. For that reason we, as software developers, want to deploy things which are free of any major issues at release time. Staged release is one of things which are supported by maven-release-plugin. Overall idea behind this is to let people have a test drive before deploying artifacts to public repositories from which they can not be removed. Of course this might be seen as completely unnecessary step if you release a small library, but could be extremely useful for bigger projects, avoiding something I would call a quick fix hiccup. ...