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Re: Stop repackaging Grizzly to support OSGi

From: Sahoo <Sahoo_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:16:03 +0530

Craig L Russell wrote:
> If there are two artifacts with the same id and different contents,
> then there is a complete abuse of the maven repository concept.
>
> Only -SNAPSHOT artifacts should ever change while keeping the same
> version number.
>
> There should be no need to "sync" repositories to change artifacts
> once they are published. The only reason to "sync" repositories should
> be to change -SNAPSHOT artifacts or add new artifacts.
>
I can't agree more. As I told you earlier, we have too many unofficial
REs here and that is partly the problem. We should disallow everyone
other than official RE to publish anything to maven repo.

Thanks,
Sahoo