On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Richard S. Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, I certainly don't mind releasing our sources, I won't claim our >> JavaDoc are very interesting. :-) I guess we just need to do it. > > Just to set the mindset accurately, in case it is missed somewhere... > > From the ASF's point of view, we ONLY releases sources. It is written > in the by-laws that we produce and make available open SOURCE software > for the public good.
Sure. We always release the source. The issue is that maven doesn't produce source artifacts that maven can identify as such in our set-up. This needs to be fixed. regards, Karl > All other artifacts, such as binaries, packages, installers, javadocs, > are purely a convenience to some downstream users, but it is not > mandatory at all. > Also, I have not checked how hard it is to build a Maven project from > the released -sources.jar file, but that should also be checked to be > reasonably "easy", or we are missing a point. > > Nuff said... > Niclas > -- > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java > -- Karl Pauls [email protected]
