On 19/01/18 10:56, Robert Munteanu wrote: > On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 09:27 +0000, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 18/01/18 21:48, Robert Munteanu wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> (Please keep me in CC, I'm not subscribed to this list) >>> >>> I have developed a Maven plugin to use with Symantec's code >>> signing. >>> Currently it is hosted by the Apache Sling project at [1] but >>> that's >>> not a proper home for it. >>> >>> The code is a blatant copy-paste of the Tomcat Ant task with a >>> couple >>> of fixes, so in the future I hope to unify them - but first I'd >>> like to >>> find the best location for it for the code. >>> >>> I don't think Tomcat is necessarily the best place to host the code >>> that's potentially useful ASF-wide, but it does not hurt to ask for >>> opinions :-) >> >> I'd agree not here since we wouldn't use the plug-in. >> >> Given the code (plug-in and my Ant task) is pretty much done >> (although >> I'm sure there is plenty of scope to improve the code I wrote) and >> there >> have only been 2 developers I'm not sure a TLP is viable. However, a >> TLP >> probably needs to be involved as releases are required. >> >> I guess there is some work to extract the common code and provide the >> Ant task and the Maven plug-in in a single JAR. >> >> Hmm. >> >> Maven plug-in. Ant task. Written in Java. Used by multiple projects. >> Mature code. Ideally needs to be released. Primary audience is Apache >> projects. >> >> How about Commons? It isn't a perfect fit but it looks to be the best >> fit. > > Commons sounds good to me. For the sake of completeness, Brian Demers > suggested Creadur on users@infra .
This main issue with Creadur is that the code signing would be out of scope (scope is set by the board resolution that establishes the PMC). > Commons sounds good to me, just like Creadur. I would slightly incline > towards Commons, since - as you mentioned - the audience is primarily > Apache projects, but not exclusively. > > How would this contribution proceeed? One way would be for Tomcat to > contribute the current implementation and then I could refactor that > into a reusable component and submit the Maven plugin as well. If you aren't already, subscribe to dev@commons.a.o. I'll raise this there shortly. Starting with the Tomcat class and then refactoring would work for me. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
