Craig L Russell wrote:
On May 15, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2008/5/15 Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
It would be possible to create an incubator only repository in a
subdirectory www.apache.org/dist/incubator/maven, say. Or we could
just simplify everything by allowing incubator projects to use the
standard repository.Opinions?
http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository/
IIUC, there are two differences between an incubating project depositing 
its artifacts into a special incubating repository versus the standard:
1. The incubating repository is not mirrored to the world, so incubating 
artifacts don't pollute the maven-o-sphere.
2. The incubating repository needs to be added to the maven remote repo 
definition of each project that wants to depend on an incubating artifact.
I think both of these have minor positive effects. So I'm really +0.3 on 
using a special incubating repository.
That's where opinions differ on whether this is a positive
effect.  One might argue that incubator releases go through
a very thorough release screening process, and there's no
reason to make them so hard to get afterwards; certainly
not from the point of view of the incubating projects who're
trying to build community around their code.

--Thilo

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