Jason, I am not sure how Cayenne can cut its release with a private
copy of surefire plugin.  Checkin  the private copy surefire plugin
and change it  to cayenne group id?

-D



On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2009-10-11, at 10:54 PM, Dan Tran wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> This isn't a problem. I'm not sure when anyone here will get around to
> releasing Surefire so making an internal release is perfectly fine. Their
> world can't stop just because ours is moving a little slower.
>
>> 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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>
> Jason
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