[VOTE] [Take 2] Release Maven Surefire version 2.4

2007-12-26 Thread Dan Fabulich
Hi, Maven Surefire version 2.4 is back on the runway. A handful of bugs were fixed since the previous take, including SUREFIRE-416 (which blocked the release). Note that I'm still unable to reproduce SUREFIRE-328, which some people claim to have seen in the wild. If you can reproduce it w

Re: More on plugin integration testing

2007-12-26 Thread Dan Fabulich
Thanks very much for working on this, Brett! This is a great document. Brett Porter wrote: Firstly - does that feature matrix look accurate to everyone involved in this? I do have some remarks, most of which are aimed towards improving maven-verifier's grade. 1) This document draws a dist

Re: [PROPOSAL] Improving the quality of metadata

2007-12-26 Thread Dennis Lundberg
Brett Porter wrote: > Hi Dennis! > > On 27/12/2007, at 7:59 AM, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Maven is often put in a bad light because of bad metadata. So if the >> metadata could be improved Maven would be perceived as being better. >> With this in mind, I'd like to start work on a new c

Re: [PROPOSAL] Improving the quality of metadata

2007-12-26 Thread Brett Porter
Hi Dennis! On 27/12/2007, at 7:59 AM, Dennis Lundberg wrote: Hi Maven is often put in a bad light because of bad metadata. So if the metadata could be improved Maven would be perceived as being better. With this in mind, I'd like to start work on a new component. Which metadata are you refer

Re: Problems accessing continuum on our zone

2007-12-26 Thread Brett Porter
I've seen it's been down a bit recently - I haven't been actively monitoring it though since the zone machine has been going through maintenance and lost some disks that caused instability. There is a new build machine earmarked by Apache infra but I'm not sure when it's arriving. I'll ta

Problems accessing continuum on our zone

2007-12-26 Thread Dennis Lundberg
I'm having problems accessing: http://maven.zones.apache.org/continuum/ I get a 502 Proxy Error: Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /continuum/. Reason: Document contains no data Apache/1.3.36 S

[PROPOSAL] Improving the quality of metadata

2007-12-26 Thread Dennis Lundberg
Hi Maven is often put in a bad light because of bad metadata. So if the metadata could be improved Maven would be perceived as being better. With this in mind, I'd like to start work on a new component. SCOPE At first it will be a command-line component that outputs text reports. Later on it mi

Re: [continuum] BUILD FAILURE: Maven PMD Plugin

2007-12-26 Thread Xavier Le Vourch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Kulp wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2007, Brett Porter wrote: >> is PMD JDK 5 only now? > > Yes. But they are working on getting a retrotranslated version submitted > to central the the plugin can use. > > Dan Hi, Now that my upload req

More on plugin integration testing

2007-12-26 Thread Brett Porter
Hi, I wanted to write some plugin integration tests today and bumped into the same problems that others have been articulating - it is currently unclear what direction a new plugin developer should take. The doc on the web site is not really complete. Though John had started to set out a