Support consuming January without Eclipse IDE/tycho (Publish to Maven Central)

[jonahgraham]

The January dataset bundles at the moment are built with Tycho/Eclipse, but there is no actual dependency on OSGi or Eclipse IDE to make use of January datasets.

This issue is to track progress on getting January into Maven central so that 3rd parties can consume datasets more easily.

[jonahgraham]

@yannick-mayeur This is the issue in GitHub to track the work you are doing.

[jonahgraham]

Here are some links of interest:

Mailing list announcement on Eclipse with lots of information about publishing to Maven central

Publishing wiki entry for Eclipse Platform - this is similar, but not exactly the same, hopefully will give a good indication of what to do.

[jonahgraham]

this is an example of a bundles as published on maven central: https://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Corg.eclipse.platform%7Corg.eclipse.ui%7C3.108.1%7Cjar

[tracymiranda]

@yannick-mayeur has a first working version available here:
https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ceclipse%20january

[jonahgraham]

Request for org.eclipse.january created: https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/OSSRH-30435

[jonahgraham]

The initial version (2.0.2) has been pushed to Maven Central under the org.eclipse.january groupid.

Thing left to do generally involve automating the process, such as:

• Do maven deploys from HIPP
• Publish snapshots (how often, each commit to master/version branch?)
• Ensure someone else can do the deploy (right now only I have permission on org.eclipse.january group at maven central)
• Sort out the release process (I have put initial notes in the release wiki, but I suspect extra work is needed/refinement needed)

[jonahgraham]

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=518487 raised to get HIPP permissions.

[jonahgraham]

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=518487 has instructions now to do the deployment from HIPP.