Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Janne Jalkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The package names have to change when a podling comes into the >> incubator (to the org.apache namespace). So, the "blow" has to happen >> anyway. I'm not suggesting we enforce this for existing podlings >> necessarily,

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Janne Jalkanen
The package names have to change when a podling comes into the incubator (to the org.apache namespace). So, the "blow" has to happen anyway. I'm not suggesting we enforce this for existing podlings necessarily, but future ones should probably do it. Once the podling graduates, the plugins would

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 4:41 AM, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/31 Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2008/5/31 Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm more than happy to throw an enforcer rule into the next Maven release that warns users if they are: - using the

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brett Porter wrote: > >> Noel J. Bergman: >> > I really don't care what cuts across the grain of Maven. I do care > about >> > the established principle that people must make a deliberate decision to > use >> > Incubator

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:32 PM, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Les Hazlewood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My proposed solution: >> >> 1. A podling could not issue a release until after IP issues have >> been cleared by the IPMC. >> 2. Once a podling'

Re: maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:04 PM, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 30/05/2008, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> AIUI, formal ASF releases have some legal protection for the people >> who make the release.

Re: enforced signing of artifacts, [was maven repository]

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/31 Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Can you elaborate more on what you mean here? I've been on the Maven PMC >> for over a year now and this is the first I've heard of it. >> >> We do support signing of artifacts

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Brett Porter
2008/5/31 Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/5/31 Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> I'm more than happy to throw an enforcer rule into the next Maven >>> release that warns users if they are: >>> - using the incubator repository >>> - using an artifact from org.apache.* with version *-

Re: maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread Matt Hogstrom
For the most part Geronimo is consumed as a whole and this hasn't been an issue. For those modules that are re-used there hasn't been any issues. You need to be aware of that. If they checkout and build the project locally the artifacts copied into your local repo. On May 30, 2008, at 10

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Brett Porter
2008/5/31 Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I'm more than happy to throw an enforcer rule into the next Maven >> release that warns users if they are: >> - using the incubator repository >> - using an artifact from org.apache.* with version *-incubating. >> and point them to a URL to learn

Re: enforced signing of artifacts, [was maven repository]

2008-05-30 Thread Brett Porter
2008/5/31 Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can you elaborate more on what you mean here? I've been on the Maven PMC > for over a year now and this is the first I've heard of it. > > We do support signing of artifacts and all the maven releases are > signed. We obviously don't control all the oth

RE: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
James Carman wrote: > The bottom line is that incubator projects haven't (yet) gone through > all the hoops necessary to become official ASF projects. So, if they > are published to the main repository, that is in a way saying that the > ASF endorses the software. Since it has not graduated from

RE: enforced signing of artifacts, [was maven repository]

2008-05-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Brian E. Fox wrote: > > I really don't care what cuts across the grain of Maven. I do care > > about the established principle that people must make a deliberate > > decision to use Incubator artifacts. If Maven would finally support > > enforcing signing of artifacts, as they have been asked to

RE: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Brett Porter wrote: > Noel J. Bergman: > > I really don't care what cuts across the grain of Maven. I do care about > > the established principle that people must make a deliberate decision to use > > Incubator artifacts. If Maven would finally support enforcing signing of > > artifacts, as they

RE: maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread Brian E. Fox
>In this tree we placed the time dependent artifacts so someone that >wanted to rebuild a release later on could by simply checking out the >tag. When the build was done the repository project was built and the >artifacts were then placed into the developers local repository. This >allowed

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Brett Porter
2008/5/31 Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > >> it has now been clearly established that we need to move the >> repository. we're now just asking: where? > > As I said, Brett Porter's proposal, made early on in the thread, seemed > satisfactory. That wasn't a pro

Re: maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread Matt Hogstrom
On May 30, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Brian E. Fox wrote: IMO, things going into the central repository must have their entire transitive hull available in the central repository. Therefore, we must draw one of two conclusions: 1. Incubator releases go into Central 2. Regular releases

Re: maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:04 PM, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/05/2008, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I personally think we have conflicting rules in the way we handle >> incubator releases. >> >> >> >> On the one hand, we require incubator releases to be in a separate >>

RE: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Brian E. Fox
I tend agree that yes it will be annoying but certainly you can't claim you weren't informed. With modern IDE's refactoring isn't a huge issue in my opinion. I could go either way, but if we say the group id changes, then we need to try to prevent classpath conflicts as Maven will see the new grou

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Julius Davies
A general package renaming is going to be the least of your worries if you're depending on lots of young immature jar files (and automatically downloading newer versions)! Many popular jars have broken binary reverse-compatibility at some point (httpclient, jfreechart, junit to name three). To re

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On May 30, 2008, at 2:23 PM, James Carman wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Janne Jalkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As an end user, I would _hate_ to have to change all of my code to reference a totally new package structure after the podling graduates. That's a major pain... With

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On May 30, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Janne Jalkanen wrote: This seems logical provided the java package names also contain the incubator keyword to avoid classpath conflicts if the jar gets included twice. Which would, obviously, kill backwards compatibility for third party extensions when movin

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Janne Jalkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As an end user, I would _hate_ to have to change all of my code to >> reference a totally new package structure after the podling graduates. >> That's a major pain... > > With JSPWiki we have plenty of plugins and other

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Janne Jalkanen
As an end user, I would _hate_ to have to change all of my code to reference a totally new package structure after the podling graduates. That's a major pain... With JSPWiki we have plenty of plugins and other extensions donated by people over the years. Every binary break means that we obso

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Janne Jalkanen
This seems logical provided the java package names also contain the incubator keyword to avoid classpath conflicts if the jar gets included twice. Which would, obviously, kill backwards compatibility for third party extensions when moving out of incubation. Is not nice if you've built you

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Les Hazlewood
Why is this necessary? As an end user, I would _hate_ to have to change all of my code to reference a totally new package structure after the podling graduates. That's a major pain... On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>My proposed solution: > >>1. A pod

enforced signing of artifacts, [was maven repository]

2008-05-30 Thread Brian E. Fox
>I really don't care what cuts across the grain of Maven. I do care about >the established principle that people must make a deliberate decision to use >Incubator artifacts. If Maven would finally support enforcing signing of >artifacts, as they have been asked to do for years, we could use an >I

RE: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Brian E. Fox
>My proposed solution: >1. A podling could not issue a release until after IP issues have >been cleared by the IPMC. >2. Once a podling's release has been approved (which includes IP >approval), they would release to the central maven repository under >the group id org.apache.incubator.podlingn

Re: maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread Kevin Brown
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally think we have conflicting rules in the way we handle > incubator releases. > > > > On the one hand, we require incubator releases to be in a separate > repository... for whatever reason (they aren't part of Apa

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Les Hazlewood
I think that that the term "Incubator" is well understood. Almost everyone in the software world understands that term. For the very few that might not, a quick dictionary or google search, or a visit to incubator.apache.org would make that very clear. That's good enough. Unless there is an abso

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Les Hazlewood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My proposed solution: > > 1. A podling could not issue a release until after IP issues have > been cleared by the IPMC. > 2. Once a podling's release has been approved (which includes IP > approval), they would release t

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread sebb
On 30/05/2008, Les Hazlewood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My proposed solution: > > 1. A podling could not issue a release until after IP issues have > been cleared by the IPMC. > 2. Once a podling's release has been approved (which includes IP > approval), they would release to the central m

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Les Hazlewood
My proposed solution: 1. A podling could not issue a release until after IP issues have been cleared by the IPMC. 2. Once a podling's release has been approved (which includes IP approval), they would release to the central maven repository under the group id org.apache.incubator.podlingname, en

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
So, let's define the goals here: 1. The ASF would like folks who want to use incubating projects to do so knowingly somehow. This is somewhat of a CYA tactic so that people are acknowledging "yes, I understand this is not an 'official' ASF project, but I'd like to use it anyway." 2. Incubating

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Haile
Yeah - coming from the point of view of a project working on entering the incubator, I'd rather have tough IP restrictions on entering the incubator, but once I'm in the incubator have an environment that most effectively promotes growth and adoption of the project. Rather than feeling lik

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Haile
Ant+Ivy vs Maven =) On May 30, 2008, at 12:06 PM, James Carman wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maven vs Ant vs Buildr ? Who uses Ant or Buildr? ;) - To unsubscribe, e-

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maven vs Ant vs Buildr ? Who uses Ant or Buildr? ;) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread Emmanuel Lecharny
James Carman wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Alex Karasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's no uniqueness requirement AFAIK. Any kind of project can be proposed even if there already exist multiple implementations of a similar technology here at the ASF and abroad. Perhaps

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread Emmanuel Lecharny
Alan D. Cabrera wrote: On May 30, 2008, at 5:27 AM, Alex Karasulu wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:04 AM, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Isn't there something that states that an incubating project needs to be novel or provide something that's not already provided by another librar

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:47 AM, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Alex Karasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > There's no uniqueness requirement AFAIK. Any kind of project can be > > proposed even if there already exist multiple implementations of a >

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Alex Karasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's no uniqueness requirement AFAIK. Any kind of project can be > proposed even if there already exist multiple implementations of a similar > technology here at the ASF and abroad. > Perhaps the uniqueness/novel res

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On May 29, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Hi, On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: ...http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/JSecurityProposal... Looks good to me, IMHO this is ready for a vote. Thanks. I'll let the weekend crowd peruse

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
On May 30, 2008, at 5:27 AM, Alex Karasulu wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:04 AM, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Isn't there something that states that an incubating project needs to be novel or provide something that's not already provided by another library (with an open-source

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Les Hazlewood
Hrm - I thought you had to have IP clearance before you even were accepted as a podling. Or maybe its just that Alan is such a great Champion for us, that he helped us along that path before we even submitted our proposal ;) Under this assumption (that IP clearance exists already), it makes much

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Jeremy Haile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it seems that a valid question is whether or not publishing to one > repository or another indicates an endorsement. Yes, that's certainly a valid question. Again, that's just my personal point of view. The biggest pr

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Les Hazlewood
That's the way I feel as well. The maven repo exists to make lives easier for people - its an easy way to pick up dependencies if you need them - nothing more. It is primarily organized by domain names, so, if you have an org.apache.incubator.podlingname group id, you're just following convention

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Davanum Srinivas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Les, please remember, not all incubator projects make it! i've personally been a mentor on a few projects that were shutdown for various reasons. - -- dims James Carman wrote: | The bottom line is that incubator projects haven't (yet) gone through

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Haile
So it seems that a valid question is whether or not publishing to one repository or another indicates an endorsement. I don't personally see it that way. Just because ASF makes a release available via a maven repository isn't the same thing as endorsement to me, just as the fact that the

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
The bottom line is that incubator projects haven't (yet) gone through all the hoops necessary to become official ASF projects. So, if they are published to the main repository, that is in a way saying that the ASF endorses the software. Since it has not graduated from the incubator, the ASF doesn

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Les Hazlewood
Noel, Could you please help me understand the fundamental reasons why this is important to the IPMC? I mean, I as an end-user could care less about if the dependency artifact is in incubation or not - as long as it solves the problems in the way the development team deems necessary, all I want to

Re: maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kulp
On May 30, 2008, at 9:24 AM, sebb wrote: On 30/05/2008, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: we've been arguing for years about ease of use verses informed choice for users of incubator artifacts. not sure that any consensus has been reached. the current policy just introduces frictio

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > End users don't read the POM. They just use it. So that is no solution at > all. The signing approach would be, IMO, a reasonable solution. It would > solve Les' issue -- users would simply have to agree to install

RE: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > it has now been clearly established that we need to move the > repository. we're now just asking: where? As I said, Brett Porter's proposal, made early on in the thread, seemed satisfactory. > asking podlings to publish through a secondary repository is both > anno

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You would still end up with duplicate jars being drawn in. Maven > fingerprints an artifact with groupId:artifactid:classifier:type to see > if there are conflicts. Of course, but you can make sure folks aren't using the p

RE: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jukka Zitting wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > I really do not know why we have to revisit this same topic year after year > > after year. > Because it's an arbitrary restriction that IMHO hasn't been properly justified. So in other words, we'll revisit this again everytime someone (relativel

RE: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Brian E. Fox
You would still end up with duplicate jars being drawn in. Maven fingerprints an artifact with groupId:artifactid:classifier:type to see if there are conflicts. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Carman Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 10:31

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Les Hazlewood
That would be my preference - it feels cleaner and still allows the release to be in the central repository (which is my main concern - our end-users would be quite upset if they couldn't get our releases from the main repo anymore). I prefer not to have 'incubating' attached to the version. Alth

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
Well, to avoid collisions like that you could change the package name: org.apache.incubating.podlingname Once it graduates, you get: org.apache.podlingname On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>The problem with that is when the project graduates and they

RE: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Brian E. Fox
>The problem with that is when the project graduates and they remove >incubator from the groupId, there is a good potential to have two >versions of the same packages being pulled in You're right, I overlooked that... so I guess the qualifier attached to the version is probably the best bet.

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Daniel Kulp
On May 30, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Brian E. Fox wrote: Wouldn't having "incubating" in the version achieve the same thing here? Not necessarily for users specifying ranges. Further, having the group be common for all incubating releases would make it easier for people to block in their repo ma

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Haile
I like this idea! We have an application that has a Swing client and we talk to the server via Spring remoting. This shared session idea sounds intriguing. I might have to look into switching to JSecurity! :) If you're interested in the Swing-web session interaction check out our Spring sam

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread Les Hazlewood
If you're curious, the two classes end-users use the most are the Subject (http://www.jsecurity.org/api/org/jsecurity/subject/Subject.html), and the Session (http://www.jsecurity.org/api/org/jsecurity/session/Session.html) - acquired via subject.getSession(); Cheers, Les On Fri, May 30, 2008 at

RE: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Brian E. Fox
>Wouldn't having "incubating" in the version achieve the same thing here? Not necessarily for users specifying ranges. Further, having the group be common for all incubating releases would make it easier for people to block in their repo manager (or with an enforcer rule). --

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread Les Hazlewood
The other thing about JSecurity's enterprise session support is that it in many cases serves as a native basic Single Sign-On solution. For example, the most common scenario that typically occurs is the following (there are several current production environments that work like this): A session is

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Maven artifacts can also specify a "classifier." Perhaps the >>"incubating" part could be a classifier? > > Only attached artifacts can have a classifier, not the main one, so > unfortunately this won't work. I think havi

Re: maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread sebb
On 30/05/2008, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >we've been arguing for years about ease of use verses informed choice > >for users of incubator artifacts. not sure that any consensus has been > >reached. the current policy just introduces friction (until someone > >uploads the artif

RE: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Brian E. Fox
>Maven artifacts can also specify a "classifier." Perhaps the >"incubating" part could be a classifier? Only attached artifacts can have a classifier, not the main one, so unfortunately this won't work. I think having a different groupId is the most logical choice... something like org.apache.in

RE: maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread Brian E. Fox
>we've been arguing for years about ease of use verses informed choice >for users of incubator artifacts. not sure that any consensus has been >reached. the current policy just introduces friction (until someone >uploads the artifact to the central repository). So are we considering informed choi

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in terms of communication, the pom is the place to focus. AIUI maven > users choose to use a library by adding a dependency with artifact and > group IDs. an easy and effective way to ensure that users know that >

Re: maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread sebb
On 30/05/2008, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally think we have conflicting rules in the way we handle > incubator releases. > > > > On the one hand, we require incubator releases to be in a separate > repository... for whatever reason (they aren't part of Apache, they > are

Re: maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally think we have conflicting rules in the way we handle > incubator releases. > > > > On the one hand, we require incubator releases to be in a separate > repository... for whatever reason (they aren't part of Apac

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Jeremy Haile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another differentiator is that JSecurity provides a session framework > that is not limited to being shared across just web-based applications. > We have users that share sessions across multiple environments, such as > Swi

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I really do not know why we have to revisit this same topic year after year >> after year. it has now been clearly established that we

maven-repository cont.

2008-05-30 Thread Brian E. Fox
I personally think we have conflicting rules in the way we handle incubator releases. On the one hand, we require incubator releases to be in a separate repository... for whatever reason (they aren't part of Apache, they aren't stable enough, etc). On the other hand, we allow regular releases

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread Jeremy Haile
The fact that JSecurity is container-agnostic is certainly a differentiator. JSecurity aims to support security in any environment. In fact, we have several users that are using JSecurity in non-web environments, such as pure-service layers or even Swing applications. JSecurity also aims to gr

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread Alex Karasulu
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:04 AM, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't there something that states that an incubating project needs to > be novel or provide something that's not already provided by another > library (with an open-source license)? I have looked at the JSecurity > proposa

Re: [PROPOSAL] Incubate JSecurity Project

2008-05-30 Thread James Carman
Isn't there something that states that an incubating project needs to be novel or provide something that's not already provided by another library (with an open-source license)? I have looked at the JSecurity proposal only briefly, but it seems to me that most of what it aims to provide is already

Re: maven repository

2008-05-30 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really do not know why we have to revisit this same topic year after year > after year. Because it's an arbitrary restriction that IMHO hasn't been properly justified. > We do not want people to be using any Incu