Backup strategy would be to vote and publish these zips ourselves. Begin forwarded message:
> From: David Blevins <[email protected]> > Date: October 13, 2011 5:01:50 PM PDT > To: Tomcat Developers List <[email protected]> > Subject: Publishing zips to the maven repo > > We've been using plain Tomcat zips for creating TomEE in the OpenEJB maven > build for a while now. So far that has been done by publishing the Tomcat > zips to a maven repo in svn. Not the best idea to have them in svn, so we're > trying to get them in the actual maven repo. > > It's pretty slick to be able to use the maven dependency plugin to download > and unpack the zip so you can run integration tests and things like that. > Arquillian does that. Or do like we do and download & unpack with the > dependency plugin, then add some wars & zip up again with the maven assembly > plugin. > > The current plan is to continue using the org.apache.openejb groupId. Do we > (Tomcat) want to publish them ourselves in the org.apache.tomcat section of > the repo? > > Not a Tomcat committer obviously, but would be happy to do the setup work so > they could go up with the rest of the binaries. > > Thoughts? > > > -David >
