I agree with Ate and we've mentioned moving the connector into their
own module so that they can be managed separately. Assuming nobody
objects to this I will do so and commit in a few days.

To summarise:

Move

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/wookie/trunk/connector/

To

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/wookie/connector/trunk/

Give connector it's own Ant build scripts to allow it to have its own
release schedule.

Ross

On 17 October 2011 11:18, Ate Douma <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 12:08 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:
>>
>> On 16 October 2011 21:15, Ate Douma<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/16/2011 07:59 PM, Scott Wilson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 16 Oct 2011, at 15:13, Ate Douma wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Scott,
>>>>>
>>>>> I looked at the download you provided and I have several comments and
>>>>> questions, which is why I opened this separate DISCUSS thread to not
>>>>> pollute
>>>>> the vote thread itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> First of all, I assume the target for this artifact is the Maven
>>>>> central
>>>>> repository, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> For that purpose, I think we'll then need a 'proper' maven artifact
>>>>> build, which means includes a maven project pom (dependency resolution,
>>>>> general project and artifact meta-data), and preferably also a
>>>>> -sources.jar
>>>>> and -javadoc.jar artifact for IDE support etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maven based builds of course can produce such additional artifacts as a
>>>>> trivial by-product, given a proper maven pom that is, but as Wookie
>>>>> currently is using ivy (which I don't know nothing about) I don't know
>>>>> how
>>>>> such things are done the ivy way.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also noticed the binary jar has the sources embedded, which is kind
>>>>> of
>>>>> unusual nowadays (I think). Not really wrong, but unexpected.
>>>>>
>>>>> The LICENSE and NOTICE files are contained within the root of the jar
>>>>> while these IMO should be provided under the META-INF/ folder.
>>>>>
>>>>> I really think, as a minimum, a proper maven pom is required to even be
>>>>> able to upload to the Maven repository, and such pom should provide
>>>>> proper
>>>>> dependency resolutions. Can ivy 'generate' such a maven pom
>>>>> automatically?
>>>>> If not, I really think the java connector module should be (also) build
>>>>> by maven itself then, which also will make it much easier to 'stage'
>>>>> the
>>>>> artifact first through repository.apache.org (Nexus) and after release
>>>>> automatically 'publish' it to Maven central. If you need to do this
>>>>> manually
>>>>> I have no idea how that (nowadays) works.
>>>>
>>>> OK, all this is now generated correctly using the new Ant/Ivy scripts in
>>>> 0.9.1, but it wasn't in place for 0.9.0, so we'd have to sort out all
>>>> the
>>>> artifacts, pom etc manually.
>>>>
>>>> An alternative is we just get a move on with the 0.9.1 release,
>>>> including
>>>> the full server, and both the connector, and parser subprojects. As we
>>>> only
>>>> have a few issues left to resolve it may actually be quicker....
>>>
>>> If the 0.9.1 version is almost already, yes it might indeed be quicker...
>>>
>>> I haven't been able to review this yet, but is the (ivy) build
>>> also/already
>>> able to deploy a 0.9.1-SNAPSHOT connector to the Apache snapshot
>>> repository?
>>>
>>> If so, I'd suggest doing that as it would immediately make it
>>> discoverable
>>> by Rave (and for any Maven repository using project). It also makes it
>>> possible to proper test the integration before the release!
>>
>> Now that is a good idea. Releasing the 0.9.1 connector now will allow
>> me to proceed with the Rave integration. As far as I am aware there
>> are no backward incompatible changes in the 0.9.1 connector. If
>> someone can push a 0.9.1-Snapshot I'm happy to re-prioritise my work
>> on the Rave integration in order to test this release candidate.
>>
>>> Of course, adding a Wookie connector 0.9.1-SNAPSHOT dependency will make
>>> it
>>> a 'blocker' on getting Wookie 0.9.1-incubating released and available
>>> from
>>> the official Maven Central repository before we can release Rave next
>>> (0.5-incubating) which should be end of this month...
>>
>> As I note above I think we can release the 0.9.1 connector before the
>> 0.9.1 Wookie, there is no need for them to have the same release
>> cycles.
>
> I agree it would be good for the connector(s) to have their own release
> cycle.
> However, right now the (java) connector is 'embedded' within a single Wookie
> svn trunk (== release lifecycle scope). To make them independent the
> connector(s) should be moved into a separate svn base folder with their own
> trunk/tags/branches first.
>
> Ate
>>
>> Ross
>>
>>>
>>> Ate
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ate Douma
>>>>>
>>>>> As an side-note: I noticed the current wookie (main) download page only
>>>>> provides the links to the binary distributions. I was kind of surprised
>>>>> by
>>>>> that, until I found out that the sources download is provided on a
>>>>> separate
>>>>> page. Not sure how this is viewed by others, but the common (ASF)
>>>>> practice
>>>>> is to promote the source distributions as the primary artifacts and
>>>>> typically the sources and optionally also the binary downloads are
>>>>> provided
>>>>> from the main download page.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/15/2011 02:17 PM, Scott Wilson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In order to integrate Wookie and Rave we need a published non-snapshot
>>>>>> version of the Java Connector framework.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While we do have the 0.9.1 release coming soon, it would be good to
>>>>>> publish the 0.9.0 version of the connector to the repository given the
>>>>>> full
>>>>>> 0.9.0 release is already available, just so we can get Wookie-Rave
>>>>>> integration into the next Rave release.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The scope of the release is the following artifact:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://people.apache.org/~scottbw/wookie-connector/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [ ] +1  approve
>>>>>> [ ] +0  no opinion
>>>>>> [ ] -1  disapprove
>>>>>>
>>>>>> S
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>



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