I'd personally prefer to see those release-doc files up at the root of the tree (but I can see the other point of view that says that my position makes the root "untidy"). It does seem pretty typical to see them at the top of the tree...
We have had some Ant "problems" with spaces and shell scripts are notoriously badly written, suffering from problems with spaces in directory names and file names. I like to see developers learning to deal with those issues in shell scripts ... but perhaps I'm just a sadist :). In your case, Steve - wondering if you have experienced problems with Maven and spaces in directories/files? or is this more of a general preventative/defensive measure? Cheers, Steve.
