On Dec 11, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Neeraj Joshi wrote: > Ok so my question is whether making all jars available on maven is required > for a apache release?
No. It has, however, become a defacto standard for sharing open source artifacts between projects. So, is very common. > > I am ok with not making any jar maven downloadable for the first release. > > The javaspl and cimspl distribution zip includes splcore.jar (along with the > license etc) which is what users would download I think this satisfies Apache > guidelines. > > I don't want to drag this discussion too long if the community feels all jars > need to be maven downloadable I will spin another candidate. This doesn't break any Apache guidelines or policies (at least not that I'm aware of). So, moving forward with the release is fine. --kevan
