If it comes to a VOTE, i'd vote -1 on automatic syncing of incubator artifacts to maven central repo.
-- dims On 8/30/06, Dan Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jason van Zyl wrote: > Hi, > > It looks like people objected to creating another mailing list for > policy so I just used [policy] as Robert did in a previous message. > > Henri has setup Maven repositories for the incubator and there is a > document which is an attempt to describe the current setup here: > > http://www.apache.org/dev/repository-faq.html > > I think that everyone agrees that a separate repository for incubating > projects is a good idea as > > 1) you can clearly see what incubator artifacts have been created > 2) we can perform analysis and create reports for incubator artifacts > easily (using Archiva, the maven repository manager) > 3) separating the administration duties of the incubator repository is > a good idea I think. This might involve a different instance of > Archiva and/or different people looking after the respective repositories > > I haven't looked at all the projects using Maven in the incubator but > cxf, the one I'm most involved with, looks like its settling on > versions like: > > 2.0-incubator-SNAPSHOT > > So the repository is clearly separated, and from a dependency element > in a Maven POM you can clearly see it's an incubator version. > > There was discussion that incubator repository would not be sync'd to > the central repository but I don't really see much point in this. A > few folks with incubating projects have voiced concerns that they > don't want to see their projects be taken out of circulation in the > central repository because they are incubating. If each and every > incubating project has a version for each artifact like that above > then it will be fairly clear that it's from the incubator. Moreso then > if you just had a repository definition pointing at the incubator > repository. > > Also someone may make an repository request to place an incubator > artifact in the central repository and at this point a policy mandated > here would conflict with someone's right to redistribute artifacts > created in the incubator. I don't really want to get into the business > of policing repository requests. I think it is in the best interests > of the incubating projects to have the incubator repository sync'd to > Maven's central repository. The source of artifacts for incubating > projects is clear from the version so I don't think there will be any > confusion by consumers of these artifacts and as such I don't really > see any downside to allowing the sync to Maven's central repository. > > Thoughts? > > Jason van Zyl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1. - Dan -- Dan Diephouse Envoi Solutions http://envoisolutions.com http://netzooid.com/blog --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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