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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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