On 3/20/07, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can any of these be removed in favor of released versions?
No idea. The dependencies in question relate to * Annotations * Hosted QA * Maven * Plexus * Tiles Plexus and Tiles are on the experimental/beta plugins list in the release notes, so when we vote GA on the Struts 2 release, we are not voting GA on these two. Meanwhile, because we are voting, the bits are being released, and we can distribute them in the same way as a GA release. The others are build-time dependencies, and we decided a long time ago that using betas software for builds doesn't automatically downgrade the quality of what we are building. Aside from what is already on the list, what else else we need to use the fabled "release plugin." It is important to note that the ASF considers "alphas" and "betas" to be releases, and there is no ASF "rule" that excludes snapshot dependencies from releases. The dynamic is that is it unlikely that a PMC will vote a release GA when it has runtime beta dependencies. But if the PMC wanted to do that, it's our call. If there are better versions of Tiles or Plexus that we can use, then someone who uses those bits should submit a patch. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
