> -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > there have been threads on this on the maven-users and maven-dev lists... > > in fact Kenny has written extensively on this topic I believe :) > I've searched the web for Kenny, version, maven-dev, maven-user and my closest article is this: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Versioning?showComments=true#comm ents by Kenney Westerhof
Are you referring to this article? If there are other articles that have interested you, could you please provide a link. Many thanks. > if your interested in contributing to this effort, I would take a look > there for places to help out. > Ok thanks for the tips. > the fundamental problem your dealing with is that 1.2.3 is a released > version to most people...and the -SNAPSHOT and timestamped version are > for development purposes... > Yes, 1.2.3 is good for users and it should be that way from the user's perspective of releases, but maven should also accommodate the developer's niche by standardizing the way to view builds. Best regards, Johan