Re: s/distribution/package/g (mostly) on releasemanagement.xml

[Craig L Russell]

Unfortunately, Java has a special meaning for the term "package".



Craig

On Aug 18, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote:

Personally, I'd use the term "artifact" to describe anything that is released, can be checksummed and for which a detached signature can be created.

In order to bring the text of

http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html

in line with the text of

http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html


to dealing with the nuances of Apache release management issues.

Anybody mind?




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I would like to eliminate most of the usages of the word "distribution" in releasemanagement.xml and replace it with the word "package". I find the common usage of the word "distribution" in the Java world (as a surrogate for package or archive file) to be a terribly confusing mess when it comes

Craig L Russell
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