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spring-attic / bomr

Command-line tool for creating and updating a Maven bom
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Use local storage to remember decisions #6

Closed snicoll closed 5 years ago

snicoll commented 6 years ago

As a complement of #4, it would be nice to remember decisions that were made for a given line and a given dependency.

Consider the following use case: bomr runs on a project for which 5 dependencies have to be ignored because they can't be upgraded at the moment. If we run bomr right after (i.e. considering the state of things is the same), bomr will ask the user again for those 5 dependencies.

If a dependency is excluded for a project, a version and a list of versions, it should be automatically skipped if the tool runs again with the same state.

snicoll commented 5 years ago

It would also be nice that we're able to store decisions on specific dependencies. For instance, if the upgrade policy of a dependency is conditional on how it's being used in a project, we should have a way to add an informative message to let the user know.

This would help us double check that the dependency upgrade has been blessed.

jabrena commented 5 years ago

Here, one idea: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/lightweight-architecture-decision-records

wilkinsona commented 5 years ago

Hopefully https://github.com/spring-io/bomr/commit/9cfb4bbc8bedab152ff5ea04a00ef6f6dbfabb8a gives us what we need here.