A couple of things I noted down for the new repository API while working on
the generic metadata:
1. further improvements on generic metadata:
- metadata can be displayed by category (hierarchical) for easier
viewing
- implement a new plugin for the rating instead of including this in the
generic metadata (which is shown as key-value pairs) as suggested by Brett
2. make the location of the metadata repository (currently stored in the
file system) configurable
- one potential problem with having the default location in the root
directory of the actual repository is that the metadata repo can get
included if you run merge the Archiva repo to another repo (ex., running mvn
stage:copy in a staging repo)
Thanks,
Deng
