On 2010-12-16 00:17, Brett Porter wrote: > > On 16/12/2010, at 10:00 AM, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > >> On 2010-12-15 23:03, Jesse Farinacci wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Dennis Lundberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Proposal+--+A+creation+and+retirement+plan+for+plugins >>> >>>> From the proposal: >>> >>> 2. Make one final release of the plugin before it is retired. This >>> allows us to make a clean break. The final release must change the POM >>> so that SCM URLs are removed or changed to reflect the decision made >>> in the vote. If the plugin is moved elsewhere a prominent notice must >>> be placed on the front page of the plugin's site. The person who wants >>> to retire a plugin is the one who does the final release. >>> >>> This seems wrong to me. Why would we make a final release from the >>> official Maven forge and yet have an SCM which points somewhere else? >>> This seems really misleading; certainly more-so than a future user >>> going to the (now defunct) SCM and not finding the plugin and having >>> to do some enlightenment work about where the release is now. >> >> Right, removing the Source Repository *report* is probably the best way >> to go. > > Agree. > > I'd also make the release preferred but optional - there's a good chance you > won't get the energy to do that if there's not energy to continue. It > probably is on a case by case basis of how many changes have been made on > trunk since and if they are valuable to release.
We do need to publish the site for the plugin one final time, if only to announce its retirement. If we don't do a release, the final site will display a SNAPSHOT version, which looks bad in my eyes. Doing a release shouldn't be too much work: - Update to latest plugins-parent - mvn release:prepare - mvn release:perform - Vote > I think we can also now recommend apache-extras.org as a suitable forge along > with mojo. > > I'm +1 to the proposal with or without those changes. > > - Brett > > -- > Brett Porter > [email protected] > http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ > http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Dennis Lundberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
