Jason van Zyl wrote: > On May 3, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Benjamin Bentmann wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> somehow related to my previous question about the checksums, what are our >> chances to automatically detect and fix bad maven-metadata.xml's deployed to >> Central like seen in [0]? >> > > While the content of the POMs is not something we can't really change, the > information about what artifacts exist I believe is something we can fix. >
I agree that we can't change content of any existing poms. But can we add a basic pom where there is none? For example, I noticed that this artifact does not have any pom. http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/ws-commons/policy/1.0/ > I suppose the only downside is we might potentially change the results > someone is getting if they are using ranges. But ranges are used so > infrequently, and it really is undefined right now whether you would deploy > something with this range resolved or resolve against a repository with fixed > versions (more like OSGi). I think we could probably correct the metadata > with very little, if any, harmful impact. > > This is one area where I would likely side on changing the contents in Maven > Central. But how it's changed is another question. > > We could simply run over it with Nexus and fix it all. But if it's not fixed > at the source the cat will just come back. I think a real solution involves > something Brian and I have been talking about for a while where project > registers for ownership of a groupId. We could suggest fixes which can be > accepted and then tracking to any changes to this metadata would also need to > be recorded. > >> Benjamin >> >> >> [0] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV-658 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Selfish deeds are the shortest path to self destruction. > > -- The Seven Samuari, Akira Kurosawa > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
