For some start-ups, this could mean a business opportunity! Nobody said, that the quality info should be given away free.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Albert Kurucz <albert.kur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Do you really mean that you would like to enforce such -source-release.zip >> artefacts to be published? > Not any qualities of the code should be enforced. > But I very much want to be able to find those gems from the big pile of ... > > Therefore the artifacts on Central should be search-able and filter-able. > Some people want to add more metadata to support this. > My opinion is that this approach will not work, it just opens the door > for more corruption. > > There should be independent software quality certifications agencies, > which issue issue their lists certifying that artifacts on that list > fulfill certain well specified minimum quality measures. > > Maven should be able to use the output from these agencies (for > filtering or search). > I hope agencies will maintain high quality of their database, because > credibility can be lost only once. > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote: >> Le samedi 26 septembre 2009, Albert Kurucz a écrit : >>> For the additional requirement, getting into the pure Maven repo (The >>> best), I really meant: build-able. >>> >>> Me too, I don't really care what tool you use to build it as long as >>> the tool is already checked in and you only use the attached metadata >>> and the attached sources. >> I need some clarifications to be sure that we are all speaking of the same >> thing. >> >> -sources.jar artefacts usually attached to the main artefact are not meant to >> be buildable, but used for IDEs. You can't build with that, since it's only a >> part of the sources, and does not honour directories expected in pom.xml. >> >> Since a few months, -source-release.zip artefacts were added to latest >> Apache's artefacts (at least Maven's ones) to provide buildable source. >> See [1] for example. >> >> Do you really mean that you would like to enforce such -source-release.zip >> artefacts to be published? >> >> [1] http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-invoker- >> plugin/1.4/ >> >>> But a tool like this, in my eyes is just another Maven plugin. >>> >>> Why care about being build-able? >>> "Non-buildable source is fine as a gesture of goodwill, but I think if the >>> public source isn't buildable, we're gonna end up with egg on our faces." >>> Quote from: >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2005-February/002 >>>170.html >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Brian Fox <bri...@infinity.nu> wrote: >>> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Albert Kurucz <albert.kur...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >> Technically it is possible to manage 3 different OSS Maven repos. >>> >> >>> >> 1. The good enough >>> >> This is the current "Maven Central" >>> >> No rules, only "recommendations": >>> >> http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html >>> >> Note: it is not a rule what is not enforced! >>> > >>> > For what purpose? Again this is effectively a dead repo. >>> > >>> >> 2. The good >>> >> This would be the Maven Purgatory. >>> >> Same rules applied as above, but rules enforced. >>> >> Mistakes of rule-enforcements corrected by purge. >>> > >>> > Or this is the new data in Central. >>> > >>> >> 3. The best >>> >> Call it the Maven Heaven >>> >> Same rules, but only for Maven built projects. >>> > >>> > Pretty much useless. The tool used to build is completely irrelevant. >>> > Such a repo would be so barren as to be hardly useful at all. >>> > >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > 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 >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
