On Feb 8, 2014, at 10:47 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:42 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> WDYT? >> >> Non-trivial; maintaining the meta-data needed to accurately generate >> the NOTICE file is likely to require more effort than writing the >> NOTICE file itself. >> > > > Actually, this sounds like a case where the effort for any individual > project outweighs the benefit of saving the time, but the total effort > across many projects would make the effort somewhat worth while. In > particular, something that enhances the communication between projects and > between the author of the dependency and the users of that dependency would > be very helpful. > > As such, this sounds like a great thing to add to maven. If it provided me > with a way to look at all my dependencies and examine my notices file for > missing acknowledgments, that would be helpful. Moreover, if there were a > way for the community of users to upload sample acknowledgements and for > the owners of such packages to reject or accept these acknowledgments, this > would crowdsource the effort of approval. Maven and other build tools. If we had a canonical database then people would be free to create any kind of tooling they wished. > My guess is that since getting NOTIFICATIONS right is a largely one shot > deal, it wouldn't be enough appeal to encourage somebody to actually > implement the system, but it would certainly make one's life easier in > small installments. That’s the predicament of a tool smith. Regards, Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
