How are snapshot jars getting deployed?

[David Jencks <da...@yahoo.com>]

I've noticed an odd feature of the myfaces snapshot artifacts when  
used in the geronimo build, namely that you have to do an online  
build every 24 hours even though the myfaces snapshots haven't  
changed.  I've found this extremely inconvenient.... for instance if  
I forget to do an online build before jumping on an airplane I can't  
work on geronimo until I land.

I looked in my local maven repo to see if I could understand why this  
might be happening and noticed that there are only -SNAPSHOT myfaces  
artifacts, but no timestamped artifacts.  For all the other  
(numerous :-( ) snapshot dependencies geronimo uses there are  
timestamped artifacts.  IIUC running mvn clean deploy results in  
timestamped artifacts in the remote maven repo.  This leads me to  
wonder how the myfaces snapshots are being deployed and if not with  
mvn deploy if there is a reason for it.

thanks
david jencks