On Thursday 04 December 2008 1:14:46 pm Kevan Miller wrote: > On Dec 1, 2008, at 8:12 PM, David Jencks wrote: > > I also wonder if our policy of patching apache projects and coming > > up with our own psuedo releases is really the best idea or if we > > should just copy their code over in svn and build it more directly. > > Not sure that it's *necessary*, but it's a good idea. Although patches > give a better idea of the intent of these private builds -- they're > patches, not forks... > > At one point we discussed renaming these artifacts as geronimo > artifacts (e.g. org/apache/geronimo/patched/jasper/6.0.18-G678601/ > jasper-6.0.18-G678601.jar ). Would this be a better technique for > solving the issue?
To me, yes. The Maven PMC recently decided that the official policy will be that we'll only sink stuff to central for projects that make a "best effort" to get all the dependencies into central. Projects that insist on having private repos and such may get "cut off" if they actually decide to enforce it. If the artifacts are in org/apache/geronimo/patched, they could also go to central. -- Daniel Kulp [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dankulp.com/blog
