Created a JIRA.
Actually, since Surefire has only "test" dependency, so it will not be
anyhow included in a release, so no problems should occur

2009/10/12 Dan Tran <[email protected]>

> yes, I did cut a sureplugin release my self at work, however since you
> are an apache project, dont think you can release Cayenne with a
> private copy of surefire.
>
> Perhaps you can file a JIRA to release 2.5, i am sure lots of folks
> will vote for it, that will get attention.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Andrey Razumovsky
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well, we can if we want to - we have a repository which can be used for
> such
> > artifacts. So you advice to make a *local* copy of 2.5-SNAPSHOT and use
> it
> > until official 2.5 is released?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > 2009/10/12 Dan Tran <[email protected]>
> >
> >> since Apache Cayenne cant just fork its own copy of surefire plugin, i
> >> think releasing 2.5 is badly needed.
> >>
> >> -D
> >>
> >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Barrie Treloar <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Andrey Razumovsky
> >> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >>
> >> >> While enchancing our Hudson builds here at Apache Cayenne, we got
> bitten
> >> by
> >> >> SUREFIRE-551. It is now fixed, but doesn't exist in any released
> >> version.
> >> >> We've found the snapshot in http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/.
> So
> >> our
> >> >> questions are:
> >> >> 1. Is 2.5-SNAPSHOT stable enough?
> >> >> 2. Can we rely on http://repository.apache.org/snapshots/ repository
> in
> >> our
> >> >> builds (i.e. aren't there any plans to delete snapshot from that
> repo)?
> >> >> 3. When official 2.5 will be released?
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >> Andrey
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > For 1) & 2) NEVER rely on snapshots for your builds.
> >> >
> >> > There are a number of problems with using the snapshot repository.
> >> > 1) You can't select which snapshots to use, it is all or nothing.  So
> >> > if you aren't following best practice and locking down plugin versions
> >> > then you will automatically start using snapshot versions when you
> >> > didnt want to.
> >> > 2) Snapshots get rebuilt so it may work one day and fail the next.
> >> >
> >> > I wrote up the steps I use for this scenario
> >> > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Patching+Maven+Plugins
> >> >
> >> > Essentially you take a copy of the source and build a local version of
> >> > the plugin.
> >> > If you use a suitable numbering scheme when the official release
> >> > arrives it will replace your patched version.
> >> >
> >> > I can't answer 3) for you.
> >> >
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