Great news! I'm eagerly waiting for my acceptance... On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Rainer Döbele <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Francis, > > I have got some good news. > Our mentors have accepted you as a new committer now. > We now have to wait for the Incubator PMC to accept the vote (approx 72 > hours) and then you should be on our team. > > Again to the transformation to Maven: > First we should provide the pom and upload the jars into the public Maven > repository. I don't see it as much of a problem to do that with every release > since getting a release out and accepted can be quite time difficult and time > consuming so that this step is probably the least problem. > > For the rest (the distribution and / or the project conversion) it's very > much up to you since you are the expert. > However you should bear in mind the following: > > 1. You need to understand the way we have worked so far in order to make sure > that we can achieve the same in a similar way. We are open for any > improvements as long as we can sill compile und debug our projects the way we > used to. > So if you haven't already done so, you should create a new workspace in > Eclipse and import all projects from svn under trunk/core and > trunk/struts2-ext. So you'll end up with a workspace containing 8 projects. > You should then be able to run all the sample applications and debug all > source files. > If all that works in a similar fashion after the Maven transition then we > will all be happy. > > 2. Before you do anything major you should let us know so we can give our > comments. Afterwards you should let us know what you have done and what we > have to consider. > > 3. For every commit you should have a JIRA ticket. You may create tickets > yourself or ask me. > > So much for now. > More when you are officially accepted. > > Regards > Rainer > > Francis De Brabandere wrote: >> Re: Empire-db and Empire-Struts2-ext distribution with Maven >> support >> >> thanks for the clarification! >> >> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Thomas Fischer <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > To aid the decision how to add maven support to empire-db, I'll list the >> > merits and problems of the two steps as I see them. Francis, if you have >> > additions or if you disagree, please correct me. >> > >> > Step 1: Provide a pom and upload it pluus the jars into the public maven >> > repository >> > >> > provides: Read access to empire-db via maven. In Detail: All users which >> > use maven to build their projects can pull the artifacts "the usual way" >> > by defining a dependency in their projects >> > >> > problems >> > - the pom needs to be edited manually with each release. >> > - the upload into the repository needs to be done manually each release. >> > - testing the uploaded pom and jars would involve an extra step in the >> > release >> > >> > Step 2: use maven as a build System >> > >> > provides: solves the problems in step 1 >> > >> > problems: >> > - the committers would have to learn a new build system. >> > - this would involve reorganisation of the project structure in svn. >> > >> > This is not an advice, just providing information for the committers >> > to base their decision on. >> > >> > regards, >> > >> > Thomas >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.somatik.be >> Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house. >
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