On 8/6/08, 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.
It would be perfectly possible to publish long lived Milestones provided they have a release vote. Robert > > > 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]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
