I would find it useful to have rc's and beta's also in the main dist.
infrastructure wouldn't appreciate that very much. You have to understand that www.apache.org/dist/ is mirrored to -- I think -- over a 100 sites. That's a lot of bandwidth, diskspace, etc. We try to be nice to our mirrors and only send them content that'll be around for a long time.
So the policy as laid down by infrastructure is "only final releases". Where "final" means "should stay up for several years and be mirrored worldwide".
Snapshots and dev releases can be deployed to the user areas,
tut then again it would be difficult to share these when building other
projects, because one would have to add the user dist to the maven repo list.
The idea with dev and snapshot releases has historically been to keep them on cvs.apache.org/dist, which is not mirrored. I have this idea that we keep our maven repo right in subversion, as its so damn convenient to have a unified interface into most stuff, and it also makes all the "due deligence" (who the **** uploaded that javamail jar there? A-hah! How dare you!?) stuff automatic.
Perhaps, we could define a flag like
maven.deploy.type={release|user}
that takes care of setting the deployBase, which would by default be set
to release, and only when someone does not want to do a public release
it will be set to user.
could work; I'd prefer having this the other way around (ie if you mess up, no files go to www.apache.org/dist).
To deploy the artifacts you add something like the following into your ~/build.properties or you can specify it on command line.
maven.username=donaldp
maven.privatekey=C:\Documents and Settings\Peter\Application Data\SSH\UserKeys\PeterHome
Which keyserver did you use to send the private key?
no keyserver. SSH key is passed to 'ssh' command for connecting to the server. GPG key is a different thing alltogether. It has a "keyring" stored on your local machine that's used by the "gpg" command. The public part of your GPG key goes into a file named KEYS that we need to put in SVN and in the distribution directory.
cheers,
- LSD
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