Remove SNAPSHOT versions

[ljelinkova]

The Fabric8 plugin uses snapshot version of the LSP server and of the lsp4j plugin. These should be replaced by some released version.

[geetikabatra]

Last time I checked, the released version was not working as desired. The errors were not being flagged using the released version. That is why we adopted to Snapshot version. If released version works well, we can replace the snapshot version with it.

[nickboldt]

Assuming you're talking about 0.0.5 vs. 0.0.6-SNAPSHOT, then to use the 0.0.5 release we'll have to hack up a change to the job that publishes the zip so that the fabric8 analytics plugin can find it at build time. The fix I provided to publish a ZIP as well as a TAR is only in 0.0.6-SNAPSHOT, not 0.0.5.

Alternately, maybe we could fork the repo from 0.0.5, apply my changes, and release a 0.0.5.1 ?

Other than the fact that it's a bad code smell to depend on a SNAPSHOT version when you're doing a GA release, what's wrong with the 0.0.6-SNAPSHOT server? Considering the fabric8 analytics are Technology Preview and at version 0.0.1, I don't think it's an issue to use a SNAPSHOT version for this release in devstudio 11.2.0.GA. ... unless there's a TECHNICAL reason that 0.0.6-SNAPSHOT is bad, other than its version.

Once you get to 1.0 (no longer Tech Preview), then yes, it's time to ONLY use RELEASE versions. But for now, it's acceptable IMO.

[ljelinkova]

Thanks Geetika and Nick for the explanation that it is OK for tech preview to have SNAPSHOT releases. I'll leave this issue open so that it will be fixed in 1.0.0 release.