2008/8/7 Patrick Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Brian -- > > Sorry. I got the impression from Brett that it was a maven project decision.
I'm quite confused what I said that gave that impression :) > > > Having said that I am not in the ASF and you guys are ..... so you attend > meetings/are on the right email lists etc. So if you want to (or not) pass > this on to others go ahead.... Don't worry, it's already being done to death! > > anyhow enough on this .... > > -Pat > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Brian Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> As I said before, this was done by infra with no notice to us. The new >> policy of purging is theirs, not ours. See the infra archives if you would >> like to read about it. >> >> >> On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:45 PM, "Patrick Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Of course this means that the maven team is imposing their idea of good >>> process on the other apache projects like tapestry which was also impacted >>> by this ... >>> >>> I could understand this if the release occurs. (i.e. if 2.2 is released >>> then >>> the 2.2-SNAPSHOT could be reasonably expected to be discarded) >>> >>> part of the process of tracking down a bug involves going back to known >>> states of the code. Using the snapshots to diagnose when a bug appeared is >>> useful as people move toward a release.....something to think about. >>> >>> Just my 2c.... >>> >>> clearly I will need to isolate my project in the future from the official >>> maven repos ... probably should do it anyhow but would have preferred to >>> do >>> it later.... >>> >>> -Pat >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >wrote: >>> >>> > The official answer is this: >>> > http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what >>> > >>> > Technically only the development team should be using snapshots and it >>> > seems like we should expect snapshots to be cleaned out on a more >>> > regular basis. Therefore if you use them, you better have a repo manager >>> > or some other way to isolate yourself. This is just plain best practice >>> > anyway. >>> > >>> > -----Original Message----- >>> > From: David Conde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:20 AM >>> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@maven.apache.org >>> > Subject: Re: what happened to the plugin snapshots.... >>> > >>> > Moving this onto the dev list. >>> > >>> > Are there plans to re-publish snapshots of these soon? I currently have >>> > a dependency on maven-embedder which brings in wagon etc which cannot be >>> > >>> > resolved now. >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > David Conde >>> > >>> >>> > -- Brett Porter Blog: http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
