future-shipkit.md

Future Shipkit

Discussion of future development of Shipkit.

What worked well

• works well for projects like Mockito and few others
• release notes are beautiful ;-)

What did not work well

• adoption is small (too opinionated? / too complicated?).
• hard to resolve "challenging" issues that are not inline with Shipkit core design (concurent PR merging: #395, multiple build invocations before release: 858

Suggested future strategy

• resolve "challenging" issues
• reduce complexity:
  • componentize (few smaller plugins, strip unnecessary features, some progress in shipkit-auto-version)
  • reuse smartly (for example: github-changelog-generator, jsemver)
  • decouple, make it easy to use outside of Travis CI, Bintray (example #842)
• make Shipkit useful for projects like ambry, azkaban)