-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ok. Next we get rid of disclaimers everywhere? What purpose does that serve?
- -- dims Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: | Hi Dims, | | On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | |> ...Any PMC that ships incubator developed code is responsible for what |> happens when a community does not form around the code base used. Any |> one outside Apache that ships incubator code should be totally aware |> of what they are getting into.... | | Agreed. | |> ...Bottom line, who ever used abdera code should do it consciously. I |> agree that adding a second repo may be causing pain to the end users. |> But this is for better or worse a "feature" because we don't have a |> better way of doing this given the tools we have and the use cases the |> tools are pushing on unsuspecting users :)... | | It might be a feature when someone has add the incubating repository | to their configs the first time they need it, but after that any | incubating artifacts might sneak in without people noticing it. People | will add the incubating repository to their parent poms, and it will | be mostly invisible after that. | |> ...So can we figure out another way to make the end user make a conscious |> decision?... | | The final solution to this probably belongs in Maven, where the | general case of "I want to approve any transitive dependency | explicitely" should be solved. I'm not following Maven enough to know | if that's on their todo list. | |> ...I doubt we will get much help from the maven team to support this use |> case. They would rather get the central repo and get it done! What |> bugs me is that in this whole discussion, no one even mentions how |> easy it is to add another repo in the poms or the settings.... | | I agree that it is easy, but as explained above it probably only | solves a small part of the problem, and some of us think that that's | not worth the hassle. Add on top of that the varying perception of the | quality and "Apacheness" of incubator releases, and you get the whole | range of opinions about a separate repository, which we're seeing in | this and other discussions. | |> ...Why can't people at least pretend to come up with some alternatives |> rather than just chant "central repo!" :)... | | The central repository is very useful for Maven users, so I guess we | want it to be as complete as possible. | | -Bertrand | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIc1XzgNg6eWEDv1kRAhvcAKCPrbUsWR7hM70VHOIzzdI3mvtO2ACeObL4 r3vI/cKBW5IPBcbUK01PwvA= =NCss -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
