RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
You don't get it and I am tired of it now. Markus KARG wrote on Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:33 AM: But it would be beneficial for you since I would change it in a way that FOP is valid for everyone, so you can remove your workarounds. Since in your case the Class-Path isn't taken into

RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
Carlos Sanchez wrote on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 5:20 PM: fop 0.20.5 pom was provided by Joerg Schaible http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV-386 That was at the point we allowed changing poms in the repo, now it is not possible to change that pom. Ah, that was me. Did not know anymore :)

RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-21 Thread Jörg Schaible
Markus KARG wrote on Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:35 AM: Carlos Sanchez schrieb: fop 0.20.5 pom was provided by Joerg Schaible http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV-386 That was at the point we allowed changing poms in the repo, now it is not possible to change that pom. Jörg, why do

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-21 Thread Carlos Sanchez
I don't know if you ALSO read the part where I said we DO NOT repackage binaries, so your proposed solution is not acceptable.. On 9/20/06, Markus KARG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlos Sanchez schrieb: fop 0.20.5 pom was provided by Joerg Schaible http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV-386 That

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-21 Thread Markus KARG
Carlos, I don't know if you ALSO read the part where I said that I will provide another pom.xml instead of another binary (it was your solution proposal, actually)? Markus Carlos Sanchez schrieb: I don't know if you ALSO read the part where I said we DO NOT repackage binaries, so your

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-21 Thread Markus KARG
Jörg Schaible schrieb: Markus KARG wrote on Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:27 AM: Carlos, I don't know if you ALSO read the part where I said that I will provide another pom.xml instead of another binary (it was your solution proposal, actually)? When do *you* get it, that you

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-21 Thread Markus KARG
Jörg, No need to, it will be rejected. See, how could Maven ever locate and download a unique artifact without a version? That's one of the critical poiints providing a POM for a library that is not build with Maven. First you have to look at the provided docs to learn about the deps and

RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
Markus KARG wrote on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:39 AM: Jörg Schaible schrieb: [snip] This does not help, since it is no POM issue! Maven may select the version declared in the POM but it does not have to. So it is quite brain dead for any library to define a fix classpath in the

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Wayne Fay
As previously mentioned, it is quite honestly not possible to fix that specific version of the pom. For a very brief period of time, Maven was allowing changes to poms but then realized this was a bad idea. So instead the proper way to fix issues like this is to actually release a new version of

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Wayne Fay
There is no error in the POM, it in the jar's manifest and the jar is the one published by the FOP team. In that case (Markus), take my instructions sent 2mins ago, modify slightly to adjust the manifest file in the JAR as well as the other instructions, and proceed to update pom to

RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
Wayne Fay wrote on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:05 AM: There is no error in the POM, it in the jar's manifest and the jar is the one published by the FOP team. In that case (Markus), take my instructions sent 2mins ago, modify slightly to adjust the manifest file in the JAR as well as

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
That's wrong. Maven automatically creates the correct Class-Path attributes in the manifest, and it's up to the fop team to decide what third party library versions to use. No! If any library would declare a Class-Path in its deps, you could nearly use none in combination. Just because

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
Wayne Fay schrieb: As previously mentioned, it is quite honestly not possible to fix that specific version of the pom. For a very brief period of time, Maven was allowing changes to poms but then realized this was a bad idea. So instead the proper way to fix issues like this is to actually

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Barrie Treloar
Markus writes: That's why I am asking for the name of the maintainer, so that I can ask him to do that... As Carlos said in another email: The repo is mantained in a no guarantees, free time basis, so your request to get this solved asap because my client needs it doesn't fit here. i.e. No

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
i.e. No on maintains the FOP available in the repo. It is there as a convenience only. I might also suggest you adjust your attitude. Sorry for beeing rude and thank you for telling me. It wasn't my intention. But see, I just want to know who is the guy that has write access to the FOP's

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Barrie Treloar
On 9/20/06, Markus KARG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i.e. No on maintains the FOP available in the repo. It is there as a convenience only. I might also suggest you adjust your attitude. Sorry for beeing rude and thank you for telling me. It wasn't my intention. But see, I just want to know

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Wayne Fay
A good idea, but definitely something we would need the Maven Dev team to make a decision on... Perhaps one of them is even monitoring this (lengthy) discussion at this point, and will start a discussion on Maven Dev ml if necessary? I'm not personally convinced that simply appending another

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Barrie Treloar wrote: The problem that Jorg points out is still outstanding is what naming conventions should be used to indicate that this fixes a problem with an already released version of the artifact. There is no problem. If the artifact is actually modified, then it's a different

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
Barrie Treloar schrieb: Carlos did tell you who maintains it and the answer is no one. Carlos is just one of the people who will upload your pom and artifact if you follow the instructions on the web site. So you are able to make the necessary changes and get it fixed. The problem that Jorg

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Markus KARG wrote: If Carlos is able to upload it while I seem not to be, he actually is in the role of the maintainer. Where am I going wrong with that assumption? Your assumption is, that he is able to change files in the repository. The answer is he isn't. Ok, he may be able to do that

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
So the policy is A bug cannot be fixed?! Jochen Wiedmann schrieb: Markus KARG wrote: If Carlos is able to upload it while I seem not to be, he actually is in the role of the maintainer. Where am I going wrong with that assumption? Your assumption is, that he is able to change files in

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Bruno Aranda
A released jar cannot be modified. A bug can be fixed, but in the next version/bugfix of the artifact (and maybe you could provide such a fixed artifact). All this is a community effort where everyone can participate. It is not right to change anything in a released artifact, because you are

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Wayne Fay
Yes, this is the point of the discussion. Please search this mail list (Nabble etc) and Maven Dev to see the entire history of this issue. Increment version by one, upload it, and allow Maven to find the updated version the next time your build runs, it will automatically find and use it. Wayne

RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Markus, Markus KARG wrote on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:35 AM: Wayne Fay schrieb: [snip] This is your best approach (imo) to get this updated FOP artifact installed in the Maven Repo. Unless of course someone else has a better suggestion... You asked about quality control

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
So since bugs once released cannot get fixed without changing the version (what is problematic with FOP as we have discussed today), this is one more reason for not let anybody upload things without doing quality control. :-) Wayne Fay schrieb: Yes, this is the point of the discussion.

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
Actually I never voted for using ibiblio but just added a dependency to fop:fop to my project, while in fact Maven 2.0.4 automatically has choosen to pull it from ibiblio. That's why I said: Since ibiblio is choosen automatically by Maven until manually de-configured, that repository must

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Bruno Aranda
The community itself is the community control. See your case. It is the user that reports if something fails, and maybe suggests/provides a patch or has the patience to let other do it. Here, there is no such a master-slave relationship where someone tells the changes and others do. If you need

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Markus KARG wrote: So the policy is A bug cannot be fixed?! The policy is A bug can be fixed in the next version. What else did you expect? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
Markus KARG wrote on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:28 AM: That's wrong. Maven automatically creates the correct Class-Path attributes in the manifest, and it's up to the fop team to decide what third party library versions to use. No! If any library would declare a Class-Path in its

RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
Markus KARG wrote on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:15 AM: Actually I never voted for using ibiblio but just added a dependency to fop:fop to my project, while in fact Maven 2.0.4 automatically has choosen to pull it from ibiblio. That's why I said: Since ibiblio is choosen automatically

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
I expected that if the bug is not in the release but the release itself, then the release can be undone. All car manufacturers do that. If there is a severe bug that is likely to kill lots of people, then they take back thousands of cars to fix the problem on the vendor's cost. I don't see that

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
Well, since I am in the business of QA for ten years now, believe me, there can be a better one: The bug was detected after months by incident. A good QA would have detected it before publishing the release. Also there still is no fix, since I am a beginner with Maven and a beginner with FOP.

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
Then all the Sun JRE's are buggy. Sorry, I am using exactly this artifact for a long time now without ever noticing that weird classpath entry. The only time it is respected is when you start the jar as app: java -jar my.jar In this case your classpath theory applies. The situation is

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
No, the point is, that you're not satisfied with the procedure, how QA works with Maven's public repo. While I can understand your point (being hit also by bogous POMs), you're not going to change it. If you want have better control, setup an own repository from scratch. Look, not even the

RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
Markus KARG wrote on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:49 AM: Then all the Sun JRE's are buggy. Sorry, I am using exactly this artifact for a long time now without ever noticing that weird classpath entry. The only time it is respected is when you start the jar as app: java -jar my.jar

RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
Markus KARG wrote on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:50 AM: Why don't you think that we can change it? You all told me this is a community process. So community should be able to discuss, and, if needed, change it. As Jochen pointed out, it can be fixed with a new version. From a QA's PoV

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
As said, the situation is different on AppServers. Neither jBoss nor WebLogic complain. IONA's possibly would, but it's abandonned. WebLogic *does* respect the classpath entry of the EJB artifact itself though. That's not part of this discussion I think. We have discussed EJB problems

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
As Jochen pointed out, it can be fixed with a new version. From a QA's PoV you cannot change a reelased version ever. See, we have relesed own artfiacts using FOP as dep. If POM or the artifact itsefl would change now, or build is no longer consistent. Even worse, the build could then be

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Markus KARG wrote: But it would be beneficial for you since I would change it in a way that FOP is valid for everyone, so you can remove your workarounds. Since in your case the Class-Path isn't taken into account anyways as you wrote, what have you lost? It is strange that you as the

RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Jörg Schaible
Markus KARG wrote on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:05 AM: As Jochen pointed out, it can be fixed with a new version. From a QA's PoV you cannot change a reelased version ever. See, we have relesed own artfiacts using FOP as dep. If POM or the artifact itsefl would change now, or build is

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Carlos Sanchez
fop 0.20.5 pom was provided by Joerg Schaible http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV-386 That was at the point we allowed changing poms in the repo, now it is not possible to change that pom. Please create new threads for any other related questions, this one is becoming unmanageable. I'm now

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-20 Thread Markus KARG
But it would be beneficial for you since I would change it in a way that FOP is valid for everyone, so you can remove your workarounds. Since in your case the Class-Path isn't taken into account anyways as you wrote, what have you lost? Reproducability! If we deploy our final release to

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Carlos Sanchez
I don't think the repo needs to be changed to meet your requirements. And it's a collective effort, there's no mantainer. On 9/19/06, Markus KARG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to find out the maintainer of the fop:fop project on repo1.maven.org. There is a severe bug in the published JAR that

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Markus KARG
Carlos, actually the repo MUST be changes since the jar IS WRONG. So if there is no maintainer and no JIRA: WHOM TO TELL ABOUT THE BUG NOW ? Markus Carlos Sanchez schrieb: I don't think the repo needs to be changed to meet your requirements. And it's a collective effort, there's no

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Carlos Sanchez
We don't build the jars, we just put them in the repo. If they build agains a jar that being the same has a different name we can't do anything about it. You are the one that in your application have to take care of it. On 9/19/06, Markus KARG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlos, actually the repo

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Busch, Hendrik (LNG-MUE)
Hi, This has to be fixed ASAP to make those projects work! The fix is quite easy, just modify the Class-Path: entry or do mvn clean deploy to push another copy to repo1.maven.org. The problem is really urgent since we need this and we do not have write access to that folder on of

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Bruno Aranda
Well, probably the development community of the Apache Fop project can help you. Check the project site [1]. Cheers, Bruno [1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ On 9/19/06, Markus KARG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlos, actually the repo MUST be changes since the jar IS WRONG. So if there

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread dan tran
And submit it back to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV -D On 9/19/06, Busch, Hendrik (LNG-MUE) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This has to be fixed ASAP to make those projects work! The fix is quite easy, just modify the Class-Path: entry or do mvn clean deploy to push another copy to

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Markus KARG
(1) I cannot take care of in my application since I don't know where to get the dependencies from. The idea behind Maven and Class-Path is that the user doesn't need to care about. (2) Why not just correcting the Class-Path in the JAR or the pom.xml? As you put the the project in the project,

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Markus KARG
Busch, Hendrik (LNG-MUE) schrieb: Hi, This has to be fixed ASAP to make those projects work! The fix is quite easy, just modify the Class-Path: entry or do mvn clean deploy to push another copy to repo1.maven.org. The problem is really urgent since we need this and we do not have write

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Markus KARG
Bruno Aranda schrieb: Well, probably the development community of the Apache Fop project can help you. Check the project site [1]. I have asked them. They don't know. They even didn't know that FOP is available on that repository. So someone just put it up there without their knowledge!

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Markus KARG
You want me to submit a new pom.xml for fop-0.20.5 to that JIRA group? And how do you verify that I didn't do another bug? I mean, ain't there some kind of quality assurance of repo contents? dan tran schrieb: And submit it back to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV -D On 9/19/06, Busch,

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread dan tran
If you rely on your customer to build your product, it is best to have your own repo to solve this kind of crisis. Have maven to search artifact first before going to central In the mean time, It seems you can fix the problem by fixing the pom right? why not submit it back? -D On 9/19/06,

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Geoffrey De Smet
Markus KARG wrote, On 2006-09-19 3:37 PM: Bruno Aranda schrieb: Well, probably the development community of the Apache Fop project can help you. Check the project site [1]. I have asked them. They don't know. They even didn't know that FOP is available on that repository. So someone

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Markus KARG
Dan, what you write sounds good, we will set up our own repository and put our own fop-0.20.5 on it. On the other hand, its not nice to have a private fop while there is global repository already hosting one. The fix cannot be done ONLY by fixing the pom, because fop is dependent on other

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Carlos Sanchez
The repo is mantained in a no guarantees, free time basis, so your request to get this solved asap because my client needs it doesn't fit here. There are companies out there that provide commercial support around maven and will be able to help you in a more commercial fashion. I'm not gonna say

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Markus KARG
Carlos Sanchez schrieb: The repo is mantained in a no guarantees, free time basis, so your request to get this solved asap because my client needs it doesn't fit here. There are companies out there that provide commercial support around maven and will be able to help you in a more commercial

RE: Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Jörg Schaible
Geoffrey De Smet wrote on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:56 PM: Markus KARG wrote, On 2006-09-19 3:37 PM: Bruno Aranda schrieb: Well, probably the development community of the Apache Fop project can help you. Check the project site [1]. I have asked them. They don't know. They

RE: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Jörg Schaible
Markus KARG wrote on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:34 PM: (1) I cannot take care of in my application since I don't know where to get the dependencies from. The idea behind Maven and Class-Path is that the user doesn't need to care about. (2) Why not just correcting the Class-Path in the

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Stefan Prange
Markus KARG wrote: What sense does it make to have jar and pom.xml found in the repo that in fact are not in sync and cannot be used at all? Hi Markus, it's a common situation that you have to maintain a local repository, maybe company wide and using a proxy to mirror repo1's contents. So

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Markus KARG
Jörg Schaible schrieb: Well, probably the development community of the Apache Fop project can help you. Check the project site [1]. I have asked them. They don't know. They even didn't know that FOP is available on that repository. So someone just put it up there without their

Re: Who is the maintainer of the fop:fop project found on repo1.maven.org?

2006-09-19 Thread Markus KARG
it's a common situation that you have to maintain a local repository, maybe company wide and using a proxy to mirror repo1's contents. So better you get used to it. Just think about all those proprietary libs which can't be provided by repo1 for licensing reasons. Examples are all Sun jars or