On 4 March 2012 03:44, Jeremy Boynes <jboy...@apache.org> wrote: > On Feb 29, 2012, at 11:37 AM, sebb wrote: > >> On 29 February 2012 19:15, Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> wrote: >>> Perso, I prefer using something which read pom and generate >>> automatically N&L from metadatas rather than maintaining those files >>> manually (for me manually means you always missed to add/modify :-) ) >>> (but sure it's my POV) >> >> AFAICT that just moves the work from maintaining the N&L to creating >> and maintaining the metadata. >> >> It also means that the N&L files are not present in SVN (unless they >> are checked in after generation). > > My preference here is also to have them generated. We want the metadata in > the project descriptor to be valid anyway, and maintaining the templates for > LICENSE and NOTICE would be handled by maintainers of the Apache resources. > We don't have any dependencies requiring a notice, and if we do this should > be covered with append-resources. > > The files wouldn't be in SVN but will be in the distributed archives. Having > this done automatically rather than by configuring each archiver will be > easier to keep straight.
I think just about every project has N&L files at the top-level of SVN. [If they don't, perhaps they should] Not sure it is an absolute requirement (unlike in archives and jars) but it is helpful for 3rd parties who browse the SVN tree. > -- > Jeremy > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
