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To address the Snapshot dependency scenario, the idea is to move away from Snapshot dependency to "Release Artifact" dependency only. The word "Release Artifact" is loaded with the sense that the build is stable, has been thoroughly tested and can be used by another team. The "Released Artifact" is available within the "Nexus Release" repo repo (refer to Nexus section below for further description of Nexus repos). The PTLs and the project team decide on their own when to create a "Release Artifact". This approach allows to truly decouple the builds from each other and avoid the situation where something that was working fine before doesn't suddenly break due to snapshot changes.
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In order to know whether you're depending on the right version of a particular artifact, ONAP will be maintaining a master "version manifest" for each named release (e.g. Amsterdam) specifying the version of each component that is to be delivered within a release. The The manifest is a structured list of components and their versions. The manifest is intended to track a particular ONAP release and be used to track all versions of all components within a release.
One early idea was to embed the version manifest within the oparent artifact, perhaps as version properties within the POM file that can be directly consumed by downstream POMs. This This approach, however, has some issues:
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- Who assigns version numbers?
- same as for repos. Projects decide
- Where do we track available APIs for a given release ?
- -> we We need something that has a similar role to O-Parent
- What’s our policy of depreciating APIs?
- -> I assume we would require MAJOR API versions to be available for extended periods of time
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