Version 1.0.18 is not yet in maven central

[ge0ffrey]

Hi guys,

JFreeChart 1.0.18 (released a few weeks ago) is not yet in maven central.
https://repository.sonatype.org/index.h ... sionexpand
which makes it cumbersome to consume for maven/gradle/buildr/ivy users (basically everybody who's not using plain ANT).
Any idea if and when it would be added?

PS: Are there any plans to make it part of the regular JFreeChart release procedure so maven/gradle/buildr/ivy users can use the latest-and-greatest immediately too?
https://docs.sonatype.org/display/Repos ... Repository

[david.gilbert]

The uploads to the central repository have always been done by someone else. I've tried a few times to decipher the process but, for someone like me that uses Maven only a little and has a million other things to do, the pain was too much. I'm going to try one more time though and, fortunately, it looks like there is some better documentation available since the last time I looked. Wish me luck.

[matinh]

Hi David!

Just saw you staged JFreeChart 1.0.18 for Maven Central. Great.
How was it going?

I documented the process some time ago on the media-wiki at SourceForge. The URL was http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/j ... Repository but it seems media-wiki is no longer available. Do you know, does this mean all our documentatiaon from the wiki has gone?

I never loved SourceForge, but if they just dropped the documentation I'm going to hate them!

- martin

[david.gilbert]

Just saw you staged JFreeChart 1.0.18 for Maven Central. Great.
How was it going?

I think it is OK, but since this is the first time I've done this I'm sure to have made some mistake. I'm waiting for the sync to the central repository. Anyway, 1.0.19 will be released soon, so I will have a chance to correct things.

I documented the process some time ago on the media-wiki at SourceForge. The URL was http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/j ... Repository but it seems media-wiki is no longer available. Do you know, does this mean all our documentatiaon from the wiki has gone?

I never loved SourceForge, but if they just dropped the documentation I'm going to hate them!

I remembered that you had documented all the steps, so I also went looking in the Wiki. It seems they did drop all the content. I searched and found an e-mail notification from SourceForge giving a warning of this, but I never noticed it at the time, and I don't think there is any way to recover the info now.

[ge0ffrey]

That sync usually takes 6 hours in my experience. If there was a staging repo, it needs to be closed and released (= 2 separate actions) before the syncing can start.

[ge0ffrey]

BTW, there's another way of doing it too:

In your build.xml ANT script, add the ANT task to deploy the maven artifact of jcommon and jfreechart:
http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/examp ... eploy.html
You'll still want to deploy to https://oss.sonatype.org/ (where it will end up on a staging repo),
but from a release point of view, you could make it as quick as:
ant deployMavenArtifacts
Surf to oss.sonatype.org, find staging repo, close it, release it.

To set this up, you'll have a 1 time of need:
oss.sonatype.org credentials
Maven central ownership of groupId org.jfree (sonatype can grant you this)