On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote:
> I am saying that if we keep the uppercase and underscore convention,
> we can't accept the default of Maven's tag names. The release manager
> just has to continue using the format we do today. That's all.

I was trying to understand the disappointment you expressed. My own
disappointment, to the extent that I have any, is that we let the
Maven team define the standards that we use for our releases, but as I
said before, I'm not married to keeping the "old" way.

--
Martin Cooper


> Paul
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Martin Cooper <mart...@apache.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote:
>>> I have nothing against continuing the way *we* do it, but Maven
>>> doesn't do it this way. Taking the defaults provided by the Maven
>>> Release Plugin will create tag names like "struts-1.3.11" over
>>> "STRUTS_1_3_11".
>>>
>>> Either way we decide, it is not a major loss for the other side, but
>>> not able to accept Maven defaults is a bit disappointing.
>>
>> Who / what is not able to accept them?
>>
>> --
>> Martin Cooper
>>
>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Martin Cooper <mart...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Wes Wannemacher <w...@wantii.com> wrote:
>>>>> Not to split hairs, Lukasz, but this is the "released" pom -
>>>>>
>>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/maven/tags/struts2-archetype-starter-2.1.8.1/pom.xml
>>>>>
>>>>> Which looks fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I was checking this, it reminded me of something I have been
>>>>> meaning to ask. If you look at the tag name that Lukasz used -
>>>>> "struts2-archetype-starter-2.1.8.1" But, somewhere in our docs, we use
>>>>> a tag name like this - "STRUTS2_ARCHETYPE_STARTER_2_1_8_1" which you
>>>>> can see here -
>>>>>
>>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/struts2/tags/
>>>>>
>>>>> The tag name that Lukasz used is what the release plugin defaults
>>>>> to... Is there a reason we don't use it? I'm all about sticking to
>>>>> defaults (since it tends to make the documentation easier), so I am
>>>>> wondering if there is a reason, other than "that's the way we always
>>>>> did it"
>>>>
>>>> To my knowledge, "that's the way we always did it" is the correct
>>>> answer here, assuming the question is "upper case and underscores"
>>>> versus "lower case and dashes". As you can see here, the former has
>>>> been used since the very beginning of Struts, almost 10 years ago:
>>>>
>>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/struts1/tags/
>>>>
>>>> Bear in mind that there's an enormous amount of Struts history prior
>>>> to us adopting Maven, let alone the Maven release plugin, so this is
>>>> hardly surprising. That the Maven default is different is simply the
>>>> result of the Maven team picking the wrong default release naming
>>>> scheme. :-p
>>>>
>>>> If there's an easy way to tell the release plugin to use "upper case
>>>> and underscores" instead of "lower case and dashes", the continuity
>>>> would be nice, since there's no other good reason to change what we've
>>>> been doing for so long. If there isn't an easy way to do that, though,
>>>> and it's a nuisance to change the default for some reason, then I'm
>>>> not dead set against adopting the Maven way.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Martin Cooper
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -Wes
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Lukasz Lenart
>>>>> <lukasz.len...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 2009/12/16 Martin Cooper <mart...@apache.org>:
>>>>>>> In Lukasz's checkins just now, I see version numbers being changed to
>>>>>>> 2.1.8-SNAPSHOT. Maybe I'm misinterpreting what's going on, but that
>>>>>>> seems like going backwards. We already have a 2.1.8 and a 2.1.8.1, so
>>>>>>> it seems to me that any snapshot version we should be using now would
>>>>>>> need to be 2.1.9-SNAPSHOT, no? After all, snapshots precede the number
>>>>>>> they're attached to, in terms of version number ordering.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just switched to 2.1.8-SNAPSHOT because Maven release plugin is
>>>>>> complaining - after I did the release, everything is ok, please check
>>>>>> already released pom.xml
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/struts/maven/trunk/struts2-archetype-blank/pom.xml
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Lukasz
>>>>>> http://www.lenart.org.pl/
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Wes Wannemacher
>>>>>
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