Seems pretty good to me. Especially now since the site builds with released Maven.
Based on your email, I'm a little worried about the "Velocity Site Doxia Renderer" that it may break with future versions of Maven. Don't think this is worth stopping a release (and I haven't followed the technical details) but I'd be happier if we could migrate this to remove "illegal Maven trickery". Does the readme file note the issues you raised in your email? (To help future users debug any problems from strange version issues?) The Doxia plug-in sounds like a useful workaround. Do we have a README file that explains what this does and why it is needed? WILL On 4/9/07, Henning P. Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, public holidays are a good thing. Today I finally found time to update the docs for the various site related maven tools and plugins located at http://velocity.apache.org/site/tools/ How about doing a release? There is one minor drawback IMHO: The plugins work best when run in conjunction with the not-yet-released Doxia 1.0-alpha-9 and the Doxia Sitetools 1.0 (those of you with an account on velocity.zones might notice that I tricked a bit there). However, they do run and with the mess that the maven developers created by unconditionally adding Velocity parsing to Doxia, it might even be an interesting alternative to release now (I would have simply given them the Doxia Renderer code for inclusion as is, but well, Maven is a terminal case of "not invented here"). Some status: * Velocity Site Skin. That is stable. No problems releasing this. * Velocity Site News Plugin. Uses some probably illegal maven trickery. Jason told me that he wants to help me making it really maven-compliant but I found no time to contact him about it. Maybe he will have some time in Amsterdam. Release wise, this is now stable and works we. Could use some more exposure; I know that some projects are interested in this (James e.g.) * Velocity Site Doxia Renderer. Doxia sprouted something similar without our capabilities to load macros and tools and the current Doxia trunk renders every apt and xdoc page through Velocity (the singleton one from the Plexus component) which certainly wreaked havoc with many sites that rely on maven to build. Once Doxia has shaken out these problems (with the current cycle of one alpha release per year probably 2021), I think that this plugin will just go away. Until then, having it makes our life easy for the dynamic part of the site. Everything builds against released parts of Maven. No Snapshots, trunk or anything else. So what do you think? Shall we release this stuff? If no one objects, I will CfV sometime Thursday or Friday. Best regards Henning -- Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | J2EE, Linux, |gls 91054 Buckenhof, Germany -- +49 9131 506540 | Apache person |eau Open Source Consulting, Development, Design | Velocity - Turbine guy |rwc |m k INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH - RG Fuerth, HRB 7350 |a s Sitz der Gesellschaft: Buckenhof. Geschaeftsfuehrer: Henning Schmiedehausen |n "Save the cheerleader. Save the world." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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