+1 Thanks for taking this on Carl. It strikes me as a valuable way to make some AOO technology easily available.
- Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2015 06:05 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL][EXT] Submit UNO Java jar files to Maven Repository Dennis, Thanks for the information If there are no -1's I'll report back after I look into all the requirements. Thanks, Carl On 09/05/2015 10:59 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Thanks for the information, Carl. > > The labeling and naming of the jar files may need to be considered, as well > as inclusion of other information in the jars themselves. It may be > appropriate to include meta-inf/LICENSE and meta-inf/NOTICE files if the jars > are distributed separately from AOO binaries. There should be some > information on how to find the corresponding source releases as well. > > For signing and hashes, how would a recipient of these files via Maven know > where to find those bits (i.e., KEYS and any hashes or their equivalents with > Maven)? > > This looks like an opportunity to be Release Manager for these simple > detached distributions. > > - Dennis > > SOME RELATED BACKGROUND > > There has been considerable discussion about binary distributions on some of > the general lists lately. Ways of using Maven came up. I don't think that > the proposed UNO Jars case is a problem so long as the material is > synchronized to an official distribution from AOO. > > There is a draft policy on the subject. It now appears to be at the desk of > VP Legal for further disposition. Depending on how these jars already > accompany Apache OpenOffice releases and distributions, there may be no > problem other than attention to the details I mentioned. Here is the latest > draft of the proposed update/clarification of the current release policy: > <https://github.com/rectang/asfrelease/blob/draft3/release.md>. > > The current policy is here: > < http://apache.org/dev/release>. > > You can follow the discussion on legal-discuss @ apache.org. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, September 4, 2015 19:51 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL][EXT] Submit UNO Java jar files to Maven Repository > > On 09/04/2015 08:54 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> How are these files distributed now, Carl? > They are included in the distribution under openoffice4/program/classes > > If approved, I still need to look into whether we provide the files or > point to the SVN repo or something else. > > We may need to PGP sign the files. I did this with the Netbeans plugin > for neatbeans.org. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] >> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2015 17:18 >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: [PROPOSAL][EXT] Submit UNO Java jar files to Maven Repository >> >> Hi all, >> >> I propose submitting the latest UNO Java jar files to Maven Repository >> for inclusion. >> >> The files are ridl.jar, juh.jar, unoil.jar, and jurt.jar. >> >> This will allow projects using maven, gradle, etc. build systems to use >> the AOO UNO java jars. >> >> Afterward I will update the wiki with the new information. >> >> The last version available in the Maven repository is 3.2.1. >> >> If there are no objections to the above proposal within 72-hours then I >> will invoke Lazy Consensus and proceed to implement the above proposal. >> >> Thanks, >> Carl >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
