Version snapshots by date ?

[Tom Zeller]

Ian (or others),

When/if you have time, maybe you could help me think through how we
version deployed artifact snapshots.

Basically, I think I want to "tag" all artifacts with a date.

I am thinking we could deploy artifacts nightly from Jenkins with
versions of the form SNAPSHOT-YYYYMMDD.

Background : I have been wondering how to tag java-idp-testbed. My
concern is that a tag of java-idp-testbed would depend on
idp-core:3.0-SNAPSHOT, but as the snapshot dependency APIs vary over
time that tag of java-idp-testbed would likely break. I think I want
to tag java-idp-testbed and specify something like SNAPSHOT-YYYYMMDD
as the version of all our dependencies via a property.

Of course, I could be wrong. I think an alternative might be to
qualify snapshot versions somehow in the testbed POM, not sure.

Am I making sense ?

Thanks.