Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-09 Thread Tommy Svensson
Bintray seems quite interesting. I signed up directly! I see that it is still a beta and there are some bugs, and a bit of confusion signing up. It refused to work signing up with my google account, but after signing upp directly I can stil login with my google account. That you can

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-06 Thread Tommy Svensson
Hello again, OK, I suspected that I get a lot of replies on this :-). From experience in other forums I also expected to have people tell me to go screw myself, but that has not happened. There are apparently only professionals here! That said, there some very good replies and explanations

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-06 Thread Adam Retter
I'll start with the latter. The arguments about quality I just don't buy. We are only talking poms here. Whatever is in the poms says nothing about the quality of the software itself. I agree the pom says nothing about the quality of the software. However, having a standard mechanism for

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-06 Thread Tamás Cservenák
The arguments about quality I just don't buy. We are only talking poms here. Whatever is in the poms says nothing about the quality of the software itself. Quality of metadata. POM serve as metadata in this case, so, I'd rather say Central enforces quality of metadata (ie. POM properly

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-06 Thread Tommy Svensson
6 jan 2014 kl. 14:10 skrev Tamás Cservenák ta...@cservenak.net: The arguments about quality I just don't buy. We are only talking poms here. Whatever is in the poms says nothing about the quality of the software itself. Quality of metadata. POM serve as metadata in this case, so, I'd

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-06 Thread Ron Wheeler
I am assuming that you are putting this in Central so I can easily use it without having to worry about the effect on my build process or without having to get into your sources and dependencies to build my app and I have appropriate license agreements included so I know what I am

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-06 Thread JBaruch
Hi Tommy et al, here's another option for you: You can leverage bintray.com to sync to Maven Central from there. For starter, you'll just get your artifacts to Maven Central in more sane way - no parent poms, no maven-release-plugin, no 20 pages guides. Just get your artifacts to Bintray,

Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Tommy Svensson
I was asked to submit one of my opensource tools at github to maven central. This turned out to be a rather complex procedure. Sonatype puts the following requirements on anyone wanting to submit to maven central: - You are forced to set a Sonatype pom as parent of your project and thus

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
Hi Tommy, I was asked to submit one of my opensource tools at github to maven central. So just create a ticket on JIRA ... This turned out to be a rather complex procedure. Sonatype puts the following requirements on anyone wanting to submit to maven central: Can you give a hint from

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Adam Retter
On the flip side - I would argue that the process is not too difficult. It is well documented and easy to understand, it can also be automated if you wish. You need not necessarily inherit the Sonatype pom, and if you do you can override whatever you like anyway. I think the current process

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Tommy Svensson to...@natusoft.se wrote: I was asked to submit one of my opensource tools at github to maven central. This turned out to be a rather complex procedure. Sonatype puts the following requirements on anyone wanting to submit to maven central: -

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Markus Malkusch
Tommy Svensson: I was asked to submit one of my opensource tools at github to maven central. This turned out to be a rather complex procedure. That was my first impression as well. But after reading the excellent documentation and setting everything properly up, I'm impressed how smooth

RE: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Markus Karg
at mar...@headcrashing.eu, I can guide you. -Original Message- From: Tommy Svensson [mailto:to...@natusoft.se] Sent: Sonntag, 5. Januar 2014 14:15 To: Maven Users List Subject: Maven Central Opinion I was asked to submit one of my opensource tools at github to maven central. This turned out

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Tommy Svensson
help, feel free to contact me at mar...@headcrashing.eu, I can guide you. -Original Message- From: Tommy Svensson [mailto:to...@natusoft.se] Sent: Sonntag, 5. Januar 2014 14:15 To: Maven Users List Subject: Maven Central Opinion I was asked to submit one of my opensource tools

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
guide you. -Original Message- From: Tommy Svensson [mailto:to...@natusoft.se] Sent: Sonntag, 5. Januar 2014 14:15 To: Maven Users List Subject: Maven Central Opinion I was asked to submit one of my opensource tools at github to maven central. This turned out to be a rather complex

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Graham Leggett
On 05 Jan 2014, at 3:15 PM, Tommy Svensson to...@natusoft.se wrote: - You are forced to have a SNAPSHOT version even if you have no use for such. Maven works because there is a consistent level of standards and a consistent methodology, and these standards are enforced in central. If you pick

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Benson Margulies
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Graham Leggett minf...@sharp.fm wrote: On 05 Jan 2014, at 3:15 PM, Tommy Svensson to...@natusoft.se wrote: - You are forced to have a SNAPSHOT version even if you have no use for such. Maven works because there is a consistent level of standards and a

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Kevin Krumwiede
IMO, while uploading to Maven Central is ideal, it is sufficient for a small OSS project to provide Maven artifacts *somewhere*. And you don't need a repository manager for this. You can automatically deploy your artifacts via SCP to a cheap shared host. That's what I do. On 1/5/14, Benson

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Karl Heinz Marbaise khmarba...@gmx.dewrote: I was asked to submit one of my opensource tools at github to maven central. So just create a ticket on JIRA ... I understand that we aren't talking about an ASF release her, are we? Jochen

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Tommy Svensson to...@natusoft.se wrote: Well, I guess I have my answer, I am alone :-). Many people are telling me that both the sonatype super pom and SNAPSHOTs are optional. I obviously have been reading the wrong instructions. Maven dependency versionning

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Curtis Rueden
List Subject: Maven Central Opinion I was asked to submit one of my opensource tools at github to maven central. This turned out to be a rather complex procedure. Sonatype puts the following requirements on anyone wanting to submit to maven central: - You are forced to set a Sonatype

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Barrie Treloar
On 6 January 2014 06:48, Curtis Rueden ctrue...@wisc.edu wrote: Hi Tommy, One of the mvn release:* commands (dont rember which ) failed if I did not have a SNAPSHOT version and told me the problem was that I did not have a SNAPSHOT version. I did not notice any other reply specifically

Re: Maven Central Opinion

2014-01-05 Thread Stuart McCulloch
On 5 Jan 2014, at 13:15, Tommy Svensson to...@natusoft.se wrote: I was asked to submit one of my opensource tools at github to maven central. This turned out to be a rather complex procedure. [ disclaimer: I work at Sonatype ] Any suggestions for improving the process are welcome - most of