On May 14, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Antonio Petrelli wrote: > 2010/5/14 Jason van Zyl <[email protected]>: >> >> On May 14, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Antonio Petrelli wrote: >> >>> 2010/5/14 Jason van Zyl <[email protected]>: >>>> I create the stage plugin as a stopgap for releases at Apache until we had >>>> a better solution. We are now using Nexus here to stage and promote >>>> releases. The stage plugin is just not very good and I don't recommend >>>> using it. It's actually one of the plugins I would like to push to the >>>> attic here, it's not something I'll be looking now that we have a solution. >>> >>> I see your point Jason, and I must admit that Nexus is a great piece >>> of software. >>> However I think that using Nexus only to move artifacts and merge a >>> pair of XML files is exaggerated. >> >> It does a lot more then that. We haven't used the stage plugin ourselves for >> almost a year at this point. > > Don't get me wrong, I've never meant to be offensive.
I'm not offended. > Nexus is great > and it's staging suite is great, however (inverting the words I wrote > so far) using Nexus for simple needs like moving artifacts and merging > metadata is overkill. Then don't use it. > >> >>> Probably the stage plugin could be modified only to merge metadata. >>> After that, a simple script that copies the other files could be >>> executed. >>> >> >> I suggest you fork it out to github and do what you like with it. We really >> don't need it here anymore. > > Actually I am an Apache Tiles PMC member, can I fork it in the sandbox? I would suggest elsewhere because I don't see this as a plugin we ever want to support. No one has done anything on it and I would never recommend using it. So I would just take it out of the Maven purview because no one here is interested in it. > > Thanks > Antonio > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- the course of true love never did run smooth ... -- Shakespeare
