On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:16:58 +0100, Daniel Florey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Sorry for the confusion. I just wanted to make the current version of the
> component available to people interested in this component.
> It's no official release yet and as such there has been no voting thread.
> The mail to the developers list was created by maven as I tried to complete
> the maven based build environment to allow distros and releases to be done
> easily later on.
> I'll try to avoid sending any "announcements" to the list in future if this
> is considered harmful. So: Sorry again for that one.
> I'm currently working on completing this tiny component (javadocs, tests,
> documentation) in order to be able to prepare an "official" release.
> There are some questions left:
> - What is the correct place to put unofficial sandbox-releases for download?

http://cvs.apache.org/repository/ I think. 

> Or is it needed for anyone interested to check out the sources and build a
> jar themselves?
> - I still can not find any maven documentation on how to use the dist-plugin
> in a useful way. Is there any commons project around using maven in a proper
> way to generate releases/distros and generate an appropriate download page?

Sure fire away with your hassles.

> If you have a look at i18n you'll see that the download link points to one
> of the distributions .zip file. I would like to point to the distro
> directory as such.

The automated download page just produces a list based on the versions
you have in the project.xml.

> - What are the steps that need to be done to move a component (once it is
> completed and considered useful) to commons-proper?

I think a vote is all it takes.


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