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On Tue Aug 14 8:43 , 'Ted Husted' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >On 8/14/07, James Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You know, there's nothing wrong with what we have now. >> >> Besides, you'd have to have an account on the ASF box in order to >> drop the jars out there and I am -1 on keeping my private key on a >> box (other than my own personal machine) out there that is not owned >> and managed by the ASF. That probably breaks some ASF policy anyway. > >I believe the idea is that we would simply link to the location where >Bamboo is keeping the JARs, not unlike the way we link to resource >like Biblio and Nabble. > >From a policy perspective, this solution is preferable since it >distances the PMC from the snapshot builds. Under the Apache License, >someone building these JARs for us is a perfectly acceptable use, so >long as there is not a representation that the JARs are an ASF >release. (Which I'm sure there would not be.) Moreover, it means that >James M does not need to expose his credentials to an automated >process on his local machine. > >From a technical perspective, this solution is preferable since the >JARs would be always up to date. Immediately after committing a patch, >the new binaries would be available for volunteers to test. With a >nightly build, we might have to wait until the next day for the latest >JAR to be available. Moreover, Bamboo is building the JARs anyway, so >this solution is more efficient. It also ensures that any interim >tests are against the very same JARs that Bamboo is reporting to us as >successful or not successful. > >I'm very +1 on this, since it > > * relieves us from the busy work of maintaining the latest build JARs, > * provides an more effective and efficient technical solution, and > * aligns with ASF principles and policies. > >-Ted. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
