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From Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>
Subject Re: Practice of releasing small changes before incorporation into a build
Date Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:41:33 GMT

On 19/06/2007, at 2:35 AM, Daniel Kulp wrote:

> On Sunday 17 June 2007 21:51, Brett Porter wrote:
>> On 18/06/2007, at 11:46 AM, Daniel Kulp wrote:
>>> Technically, if you follow all the latest legal discussions and
>>> stuff, the name of the tgz/zip should be "apache-maven-2.0.7" which
>>> would allow
>>> to use an artifactId of apache-maven.     We just changed over to
>>> that format for CXF.     That way the signatures are all OK as is.
>>>  (The directory it extracts to should also be apache-maven)
>>
>> Do you have a pointer to the specific message-id or policy document
>> for this? I thought I followed that discussion and it was not seen as
>> a requirement.
>>
>> I can't see why it would be legally required.
>
> There are two "reasons" that come up with these discussions:
>
> 1) The project name is officially "Apache Maven", not "Maven".   The
> downloads and such should reflect that.  (as should the READMEs,  
> the web
> site, etc....)

Yes, I agree with that. Sorry, I thought you were suggesting it for  
all artifact IDs, which would be a bit much.

I'm in favour of changing the distribution filename in future  
releases (but don't see it as required for this one).

- Brett

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