On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Isuru Perera <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have added Apache Parent POM to the root pom.xml [1].
>
> With that I added license, scm details etc. to root pom.xml.
>
> But we still have <license> defined in some child pom.xml files. For
> example check:
> grep -A 3 -R '<license>' . --include=pom.xml
>
> I think we should remove those and keep license only in root pom. Or
> should we add it to every POM?
>

AFAIK we should add licensing header to each and every file in the code
base.

>
> <scm> tag is also there in some pom.xml and those are invalid. See:
> grep -A 4 -R '<scm>' . --include=pom.xml
>
> Likewise there are many things need to be cleaned up.
>
> Some more things to check:
> grep -A 4 -R '<issueManagement>' . --include=pom.xml
> grep -A 7 -R '<mailingLists>' . --include=pom.xml
> grep -A 3 -R '<organization>' . --include=pom.xml
> grep -A 3 -R '<repositories>' . --include=pom.xml
>
> I think we should keep general things only in root pom.
>
> Please share your suggestions.
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STRATOS-44
>
> --
> Isuru Perera
> Senior Software Engineer | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/
> Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
>
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Best Regards,
Nirmal

C.S.Nirmal J. Fernando
Senior Software Engineer,
WSO2 Inc.

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