2010/5/14 Jason van Zyl <[email protected]>:
>
> On May 14, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Antonio Petrelli wrote:
>
>> 2010/5/14 Jason van Zyl <[email protected]>:
>>> I create the stage plugin as a stopgap for releases at Apache until we had 
>>> a better solution. We are now using Nexus here to stage and promote 
>>> releases. The stage plugin is just not very good and I don't recommend 
>>> using it. It's actually one of the plugins I would like to push to the 
>>> attic here, it's not something I'll be looking now that we have a solution.
>>
>> I see your point Jason, and I must admit that Nexus is a great piece
>> of software.
>> However I think that using Nexus only to move artifacts and merge a
>> pair of XML files is exaggerated.
>
> It does a lot more then that. We haven't used the stage plugin ourselves for 
> almost a year at this point.

Don't get me wrong, I've never meant to be offensive. Nexus is great
and it's staging suite is great, however (inverting the words I wrote
so far) using Nexus for simple needs like moving artifacts and merging
metadata is overkill.

>
>> Probably the stage plugin could be modified only to merge metadata.
>> After that, a simple script that copies the other files could be
>> executed.
>>
>
> I suggest you fork it out to github and do what you like with it. We really 
> don't need it here anymore.

Actually I am an Apache Tiles PMC member, can I fork it in the sandbox?

Thanks
Antonio

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