On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:10 -0800, mraible wrote: > MyFaces 1.2.1 appears to be available in the Central Maven Repository but > there's no indication on myfaces.apache.org on in JIRA. Was it released? If > so, was there an announcement?
Hmm..there is an impl jar (from 22 dec), and a myfaces-core-project, but not an api jar. I would guess that the release manager has made a mistake and published a partial set of artifacts by mistake. oops. I'll point this out on the dev list. There are attempts at the moment to get a 1.2.1 release out; people seem pretty happy with the current 1.2.1 snapshots. However the release manager has been having some problems with maven. In addition, Sun's pain-in-the-arse control of the official JSF approval process means that the release process is somewhat secretive, even to committers on the project. A release-candidate is made, then disappears into a black hole while going through the sun-controlled test process. Sometimes it comes out again as a blessed release, sometimes not. I think it's fair to say that the ASF is not happy about this, but there isn't a lot that can be done. And in the end, having the TCK run against the release candidate is better than not having it done, even if the process is bad. I also see that there is a tag directory called "1.2.1", even though the 1.2.1 release has not been made yet. This seems like bad practice to me, though possibly is the fault of the maven-release-plugin (one of the more poorly-designed maven plugins IMO). Regards, Simon
