== ASF Software Repository ==

== 2006-02 Summary ==

[RepositorySummary]

== Road Map ==
 *  1. Agree on Repository goals
 *  2. Agree on Repository requirements
 *  3. Agree on URI syntax
 *  4. Recommend  best practices for
   *           1. Client Tools
   *           2. Publishing Tools
   *           3. Management Tools

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== Apache Software Repository Goals ==

A repository architecture/implmentation for software artifacts for streamlining distribution. 

 *  Open (language independent, publisher/reader/maintainer independent)
 *  Scalable (can be mirrored, distributed, etc.)
 *  Programmatic (tools driven "yet also manually maintainable when needed")
 *  Secure (both for publishing and downloading)
 *  Extensible (Apache teams can annotate with their own metadata)

'''Non-Goals:'''
 *  Artifact installation/site indexing (ala Perl Package Manager, PPM)
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== ASF Software Repository Requirements ==

 *   ASF Repository shall:
   *  only host  artifacts approved by a PMC
   *  be  accessible to the public via http
   *  be mirrorable.
   *  allow browsing and downloding of artifacts by humans via normal web browser
   *  Provide tools for the management of the artifacts
 *  ASF Repository should (optionally)
   *  provide metadata about a project,
     *  its components
     *  its dependencies
     *  its artifacts
     *  list of version available
     *  url's to find specific versions of an artifact.
   *  Provide tools for the management of the artifacts/project metadata
   *  Allow for low cost maintance by hand without tool support.
 *  ASF Repository shall not
   *  Host any artifact in violation of a license, or IPR.
   *  Host any development snapshots (they should be at [[http://cvs.apache.org/repository/]]).
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 *  ToDo -- requires decisions
 *  [[Decisions]]
 *  [[Terminology]]
 *  [[Proposals]]
 *  [[Metadata]]
 *  [[Components]]
 *  [[Issues]]
 *  [[Participants]]
 *  ReleaseManagerNotes


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'''Interested Parties'''
   *  [[GumpProjectPages|Gump]]
   *  [[JakartaMaven|Maven]]
   *  [[RuperProposal|Ruper]] & [[http://www.krysalis.org/ruper|Ruper2]]
   *  [[http://greebo.sourceforge.net|Greebo]]
   *  [[ApacheAnt|Ant]]
   *  [[http://smartfrog.org/|SmartFrog]]

'''Reference Information'''

 *  [[http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html|Apache Mirroring Information]]
 *  http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/
 *  http://gump.dotnot.org/repository/

   *  [[http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr056/index.html|JSR 56 - JNLP]]
   *  [[http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/|Java Web Start (JNLP RI)]]