the proposed bits didn't pass the TCK. next week, I'll get to it. currently vacation
-M On Jan 4, 2008 8:26 PM, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- Matthias Wessendorf further stuff: blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org
