On 30/05/2008, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >we've been arguing for years about ease of use verses informed choice > >for users of incubator artifacts. not sure that any consensus has been > >reached. the current policy just introduces friction (until someone > >uploads the artifact to the central repository). > > > So are we considering informed choice to be transitive? The informed > choice is a red herring in the case of regular Apache releases depending > on the incubator artifacts. If they add the incubator repo to their pom, > then most users of their artifact won't even notice it. Only those that > are using repo managers or other policies are getting trapped by this.
All the more reason not to allow regular releases to depend on incubator artefacts. > > --Brian > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
