From: guillaume.lambert <guillaume.lambert@orange.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:15:18 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: add precisions on BOMs in platform versions doc
X-Git-Tag: release/aluminium-sr1~3
X-Git-Url: https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c0510d3fd1ce55df559686687f83c5aa7fa19b03;p=integration%2Fdistribution.git

add precisions on BOMs in platform versions doc

Signed-off-by: guillaume.lambert <guillaume.lambert@orange.com>
Change-Id: I6d9b3a0c0e753a84f8f89138f64923edc5b6aced
(cherry picked from commit 0e54c9ac4359b7eaf19e7f028a8eadb2d7ee7063)
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diff --git a/docs/platform-versions.rst b/docs/platform-versions.rst
index 3c60c4c3..4e09a96f 100644
--- a/docs/platform-versions.rst
+++ b/docs/platform-versions.rst
@@ -48,3 +48,8 @@ Platform versions
      - 1.9.1-SNAPSHOT
 
 .. note:: Most projects get their YANG Tools version via MD-SAL.
+  ${project}-artifacts are maven `bill of materials <https://howtodoinjava.com/maven/maven-bom-bill-of-materials-dependency/>`__
+  (a.k.a. bom or BOM), whose use is strongly recommended to avoid versions
+  mismatch across multiple dependencies in poms.
+
+