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Enrique Arizón Benito commented on MNG-7221:
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Sorry for the late reply.
[~michael-o]. Regarding "they do have the time to waste not to understand" ...
I guess this is a very simplified view on how modern software development
works, when developers can potentially get involved in 3 or more parallel
projects and ten of different technology stacks. In a recent project I was part
of, developers had to manage to "juggle" with Java, CI/CD/DevOps (shell
scripts, k8s, jenkins, ...), Python, NodeJS, go and .Net.
It depends all on the context (context "==" budget, resources, knowledge,
deadlines ). Without time limitations everyone would be expected to master mvn
and read the related documentation properly. Real world is more about a
Too-Long-Dont-Read one
([https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/tree/main/pages/common] ,
[https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/blob/main/pages/common/mvn.md] ).
[~khmarbaise] Not exactly. New maven versions would just need to translate
"FUTURE" to "SNAPSHOT" when reading the version string and continue as usual. I
guess back-porting the change to existing mvn will not be an issue. (A minor
version since it will doesn't break API compatibility). Only those projects
that were using a old mvn setup and were not able to update it would suffer
when trying to parse a "*-FUTURE" version, but considering that SNAPSHOT is
used internally at will by dev.teams, It's quite unrealistic to think that they
will switch nomenclature without first upgrading mvn.
My two cents!
> Allow "FUTURE" as an alias for "SNAPSHOT"
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> Key: MNG-7221
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7221
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 3.8.2
> Reporter: Enrique Arizón Benito
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: waiting-for-feedback, wontfix-candidate
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> +underlined text+SNAPSHOT versioning is an excellent idea that solve many
> problems, still many people do not understand them, mostly because they do
> not have the time to read the related documentation or just get confused by
> blogs with incorrect information.
> After working with many developers with different skills and experience I
> have found that replacing SNAPSHOT by FUTURE offers a much more intuitive
> idea on how to use the maven snapshots.
> IMHO, allowing for nomenclature like "v1-FUTURE" as an alias for
> "v1-SNAPSHOT" will boost the perceived usability of maven to many non-expert
> developers.
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