On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The central repository is the Maven PMC's business. What results will be > public policy but we'd like to avoid the banter of the misinformed so we can > arrive at a decision quickly.
Yes, although the PMC is expected to do all non-sensitive discussion on the public dev@ list. But, so far I think the central repo has served the Java communities (not only Apache) very well. It allows sync'ing from other repository hosts, which has made life a lot easier for smaller projects. That said, I think that Maven should move away from a central repository, and instead go with distributed ones and possibly harness the power of search engines (Yahoo RDF?) to locate stuff everywhere. To be able to do that securely, some clever security mechanisms must first be developed, and since that is in line with security-concerned people, I think it is a good thing to do so. "How hard can it be?", considering the expertise around detailing the requirements almost at code level, right ;-) ? Cheers Niclas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
