Re: plugin source releases aren't copied to 'dist', can anyone dig up history?

2012-12-21 Thread Benson Margulies
Brian, can you point me to any thread of that discussion? I'm not going to pick up the conversational gambit of what the policy *should* be; I'm already neck deep in that on another thread and I don't think it will help anyone to start a mirror image of it here. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:19 PM,

Re: plugin source releases aren't copied to 'dist', can anyone dig up history?

2012-12-21 Thread Brian Fox
Further to that, no one will ever consume maven plugins from a random dist folder anyway, so a policy that requires this is a paper policy only and would have no basis in the reality of how these particular projects are consumed. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Brian Fox wrote: > The last disc

Re: plugin source releases aren't copied to 'dist', can anyone dig up history?

2012-12-21 Thread Brian Fox
The last discussion of this required the production of proper source bundles for voting, which we created at that time. I don't recall there being any requirement that everything go onto dist. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Dear fellow community members, > > The curr

plugin source releases aren't copied to 'dist', can anyone dig up history?

2012-12-21 Thread Benson Margulies
Dear fellow community members, The current official documentation for Apache releases calls for all releases to be copied to the 'dist' area. We don't do that for poms and plugins. We just push a source release zip to repository.apache.org. Can anyone here help me out by finding a historical thr