Brian, MEV is for "Maven Evangelism" issues. Are you sure maintenance issues of any given repo should belong to that?
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Brian Fox <bri...@infinity.nu> wrote: > The MEV project on jira.codehaus.org is where we collect data to fix > these known issues. In general the policy is not to change existing > files (checksums is one exception), and also we need to be careful to > not insert pom files in place of missing ones. Even doing this can > cause user's builds to change in subtle ways. > > There are plans to get some of this cleaned up and mainly focus on > stopping the garbage from getting in there in the first place. > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Albert Kurucz <albert.kur...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> According to http://www.think88.com/resources/Maven_white_paper_june_2009.pdf >> >> " >> Sonatype maintains a central repository with more than 90,000 artifacts, >> consuming more than 60 GB of storage. In addition to the artifacts >> themselves, the >> Maven Central Repository also contains a POM-file for each of the artifacts, >> containing the meta data for these artifacts. To protect the integrity of the >> repository, Sonatype checks the meta data for correctness. If the meta data >> is >> erroneous, the artifact can’t be uploaded. >> " >> >> There are some artifacts on the Maven Central Repo, with corrupt meta data. >> Is there an issue tracker where such corrupt artifacts could be reported? >> >> What is the policy of Sonatype handling this issue? >> 1. Will corrupt artifacts be removed (causing a chain reaction, >> because Central hosted dependents will loose their dependencies, which >> are required to be also on Central)? >> 2. Or is it in Sonatype's plan to start a new Central Repo, which is >> now better scanned? >> 3. Or ignorance? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
