On Oct 11, 2012, at 3:44 AM, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> wrote:

> As I see it after the feedback there are 2 main arguments:
> 
> * maintaining the ITs during maven-core development. People currently tend to 
> forget adding ITs for the stuff they change. This might be easier if the ITs 
> are contained in the same repo.
> 
> * being able to run the ITs onto old maven releases. That's for sure easier 
> if we keep em separated.
> 
> 
> Any other arguments to add to the list?
> 

- they do not have the same lifecycle
- the are designed to be separate
- coupling will most certainly happen if people work on them simultaneously

> 
> I'm perfectly fine either way. It's just that we can change this easily right 
> now and it might be harder to do later.
> 

> 
> LieGrue,
> strub
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Arnaud Héritier <aherit...@gmail.com>
>> To: Maven Developers List <dev@maven.apache.org>
>> Cc: Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:32 AM
>> Subject: Re: Flipping Maven Core to Git
>> 
>> Like Stephen I would prefer to keep them separated.
>> They have a different lifecycle as we should be (we are ?) able to run ITs
>> against various versions of Maven and we take care to have flags to
>> enable/disable some tests.
>> I see no advantage to merge them
>> For me the need to reduce the number of repositories is like the need to
>> reduce the number of Jira projects. It's only a sysadmin constraint and it
>> is against the spirit of these tools.
>> 
>> Arnaud
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Stephen Connolly <
>> stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thursday, 11 October 2012, Kristian Rosenvold wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 2012/10/11 Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de 
>> <javascript:;>>:
>>>>> What if we first merge the 2 repos into 1 git repo?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Imo maven-core and the ITs must fit together! Having the ITs in a
>>>> separate repo will make people forget about them.
>>>> 
>>>> None of them are big, we could easily merge them; conceptually they
>>>> belong together. It would seem like they should be merged with the
>>>> same source root. I assume the best way to do this would simply be to
>>>> flip m3 to git, then just add the complete history of core-its and
>>>> then just "merge" them on trunk... ?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Also for a maven-core release it isn't a problem if the ITs 
>> get tagged.
>>>> I actually would even really appreciate that fact!
>>>> 
>>>> Each core iIT is tagged with the initial maven version which it is
>>>> valid at (using a homebrew replacement of JUnit assumptions), which
>>>> means the full IT suite is self-configuring wrt which maven version it
>>>> is being run against. No need to tag it really.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I would actually prefer that the it suite is separate as it is version
>>> independent.
>>> 
>>> But I don't feel strongly either way
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Kristian
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Thanks,

Jason

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