computing rank on the top maven modules by using the pom.xml files in maven central?

2014-10-18 Thread Kevin Burton
I had a though today that it might be valuable to compute a rank (either pagerank or just raw in degree) on the top modules in maven central. But perhaps someone has already done this? I’m lazy. :) The goal here , for me at least, is to fine the top libraries that everyone is using based on

Important Notice for all users of the parallel build feature

2014-10-18 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
Thanks to an excellent testcase provided by a JIRA user, a significant source of thread safety bugs has been located and fixed. The problem has an extensive reach, and can be the source of practically *any* issue in parallel builds, and is probably the root cause of most JIRA issues filed wrt

Re: Important Notice for all users of the parallel build feature

2014-10-18 Thread Maxim Solodovnik
Is it possible to include this jar to maven distribution? Because it is not always possible to change it on build servers . On 19 October 2014 01:22, Kristian Rosenvold kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to an excellent testcase provided by a JIRA user, a significant source of

Re: Important Notice for all users of the parallel build feature

2014-10-18 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
As can be seen from https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/PLXCOMP-258, all the related issues are marked as fixed, which means the fix will be part of the next release of all the components in question. Given the number of components involved, this will take a bit of time.. Kristian 2014-10-18 20:42

Re: Important Notice for all users of the parallel build feature

2014-10-18 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
Additionally, this issue affects parallel artifact download/pom interpolation in maven core. The overall symptom is interpolation expressions like ${project.name} not being resolved, but this can lead to interesting kinds of corruption. The fix can be applied to all 3.x versions of maven by

Re: computing rank on the top maven modules by using the pom.xml files in maven central?

2014-10-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, some of the Maven search engines like mvnrepository.com do that. However the metrics are a bit of a problem, as a lot of those are forced into the dependency tree and others might be very popular in a small field (science) but never be able to dominate the general purpose ones.

Re: computing rank on the top maven modules by using the pom.xml files in maven central?

2014-10-18 Thread Kevin Burton
Ah.. yes… caveats included, this is really helpful! Thanks! On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Bernd Eckenfels e...@zusammenkunft.net wrote: Hello, some of the Maven search engines like mvnrepository.com do that. However the metrics are a bit of a problem, as a lot of those are forced into