2008/8/6 Patrick Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Of course this means that the maven team is imposing their idea of good
> process on the other apache projects like tapestry which was also impacted
> by this ...

No, Apache is imposing rules on Apache projects. That makes sense, right?

>
> I could understand this if the release occurs. (i.e. if 2.2 is released then
> the 2.2-SNAPSHOT could be reasonably expected to be discarded)

In the case of Surefire, that's exactly what happened...

>
> part of the process of tracking down a bug involves going back to known
> states of the code. Using the snapshots to diagnose when a bug appeared is
> useful as people move toward a release.....something to think about.

Agreed, but as time increases that becomes much less meaningful over
time due to the number of changes.

Cheers,
Bret

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Brett Porter
Blog: http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/

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