On 10/01/2008, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 4:32 PM, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/01/2008, Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ---- Original Message ---- > > > From: Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On 10/01/2008, Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > [..] > > > > > +1 to this sentiment. I completely reject the notion of generating > > > NOTICE.txt. That is our responsibility here in commons. > > > > > > > And I reject the attitude to discard a solution *once and forever*, > > > > simply because there is an aspect in the *current* implementation that > > > > you dislike. > > > > My position is that no matter how good the plugin is, the NOTICE file > > needs to be generated manually in order to ensure proper oversight. It > > seems to me that it should be possible to review the NOTICE file for > > compliance without having to generate it. > > Oversight is the PMC reviewing and voting on the release artifacts and > checking the LICENSE and NOTICE files - even if theres a good > hand-written copy in svn it makes no difference since its what we put > out in our distros.
OK, point taken. > Additionally hand written ones can be just as bad > or worse. If a component has the "standard" flavour that most of our > components have why does that make you feel confident? For all you > know someones just copied another and has given no thought to what it > should contain. At least with the generated one it tries to name all > dependencies, the author and license - if that doesn't work well then > putting in a custom "hand written" one takes precedence over the > generated one. So it seems to me this plugin is better IF the > dependencies information is up to date. AIUI, the NOTICE file is not about dependencies, it is about the artefacts that are actually included in the distribution. In the case of Commons, dependencies are normally not included in the distribution, and should therefore not be included in NOTICE. Indeed, I suspect that most (possibly all) Commons distributions need the same NOTICE file - the only difference being the initial copyright year. Or have I missed something here? > Niall > > > > This is what I also said, and got snipped: > > > "Whether this affects a particular plugin or not is of non relevance to > > > me." > > > > > > ie. I personally have no idea what the rest of the plugin does, its not > > > of great interest to me. My point is specific to NOTICE.txt. To a lesser > > > degree it also affects LICENSE.txt, which should also be in svn IMO. > > > > > > Stephen > > > > > > > > > > The value of the mrr plugin (in the light of the Apache policies) is > > > > that it provides the technical solution for a non-trivial task: To > > > > ensure that artifacts contain the required files. Having been the > > > > person who was forced to implement a comparable solution in the past > > > > for a several projects and for several artifacts separately, I am very > > > > happy if someone provides a solution that does exactly that and will > > > > take care for possible other artifacts in the future. The question, > > > > how and from where the NOTICE.txt file is obtained is a minor problem, > > > > which can easily be achieved, in the worst case by subclassing the > > > > plugin. So, what's the reason to be so gruff? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
