Re: Creadur interest in ASF (Maven) repositories

[Hervé BOUTEMY <he...@free.fr>]

Le dimanche 28 juin 2020, 19:31:48 CEST Romain Manni-Bucau a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I agree...with both of you :D
> 
> Which means in a more comprehensive fashion: can't it be moved to
> creadur+maven pmc be added to credur at least as committer and maybe as pmc?
> This way we reach both goals, no?
wherever this code move, I'd be interested to continue to maintain it

I'm not sure adding the whole Maven PMC will really make sense, because not 
everybody is active, but adding PMC member who are interested is a good idea. 
Perhaps even some Maven committer who are not in the PMC

Regards,

Hervé

> 
> 
> Just my 2 cts
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> Le dim. 28 juin 2020 à 19:30, Robert Scholte <rf...@apache.org> a
> 
> écrit :
> > https://github.com/apache/maven-resources is still at subversion, the
> > github is a readonly mirror.
> > 
> > That's what triggered the discussion: how to move it to git? 1 repository
> > or 4?
> > I came with the suggestion to actually move them.
> > 
> > And these repositories are not touched that often, e.g. the text of
> > LICENSE, NOTICE and DEPENDENCIES won't change in general.
> > Only the asf-parent pom might require some maintenance, but should
> > basically be updating plugins.
> > I expect close to no extra work, however they are required with every ASF
> > release that follows the release-policy[1], hence they need a dedicated
> > repository.
> > And I noticed Karl Heinz is PMC, he is familiar enough with maintaining
> > these kind of repositories.
> > 
> > If Creadur would not be the right project, which other one would be?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Robert
> > On 28-6-2020 19:14:32, P. Ottlinger <po...@apache.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > thanks for reaching out ....
> > 
> > Am 28.06.20 um 13:43 schrieb Robert Scholte:
> > > the Apache Maven team has been maintaining several repositories related
> > 
> > to ASF (meta)files used by Maven projects.
> > 
> > > Think of:
> > > - https://github.com/apache/maven-apache-parent (parent pom for ASF
> > 
> > projects )
> > 
> > Personally I'd prefer to have this file in the hand of infra/DEVOPS guys
> > as it seems to be connected to ASF's CI infrastructure apart from being
> > the root for most Maven-based projects at ASF.
> > 
> > As Creadur's community is rather small I'm unsure if it would fit to
> > have this sensitive project within its reach.
> > 
> > But I understand your feeling to move this repo to a different location.
> > 
> > Maybe it would make sense to have it in Creadur's hands as many projects
> > run RAT (if they use Maven at all).
> > 
> > > - https://github.com/apache/maven-resources ( files/templates required
> > 
> > by every ASF distributable. Think of NOTICE, LICENSE, DEPENDENCIES,
> > DISCLAIMER, the license header )
> > 
> > I don't really get the sense of that repo with the last commit in 2018
> > and Github's warning that it is marked deprecated - why should it move
> > to Creadur?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Phil