From general-return-18362-apmail-incubator-general-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Fri May 30 13:12:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 53283 invoked from network); 30 May 2008 13:12:43 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 30 May 2008 13:12:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 23453 invoked by uid 500); 30 May 2008 13:12:44 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 23313 invoked by uid 500); 30 May 2008 13:12:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 23302 invoked by uid 99); 30 May 2008 13:12:44 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 May 2008 06:12:44 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=10.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [72.14.220.155] (HELO fg-out-1718.google.com) (72.14.220.155) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 May 2008 13:11:50 +0000 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so129093fgb.26 for ; Fri, 30 May 2008 06:12:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.1.11 with SMTP id 11mr291724fga.27.1212153132096; Fri, 30 May 2008 06:12:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.95.5 with HTTP; Fri, 30 May 2008 06:12:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:12:12 -0400 From: "James Carman" Sender: jcarman@carmanconsulting.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: maven repository In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <510143ac0805150917v73ad4126hc3bd8aae8ca29a9@mail.gmail.com> <510143ac0805300433q70b392d9r570db68f6325f4ab@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3fbc5f3b0ee353f6 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > in terms of communication, the pom is the place to focus. AIUI maven > users choose to use a library by adding a dependency with artifact and > group IDs. an easy and effective way to ensure that users know that > they are using an artifact from the incubator would be to ensure that > the group or artifact ID includes this information. we could also ask > that the pom (meta-data) for the project specifies 'Apache Software > Foundation (Incubator)' rather than 'Apache Software Foundation' as > the organisation. > Maven artifacts can also specify a "classifier." Perhaps the "incubating" part could be a classifier? org.apache.podling podling 2.0 incubating --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org