RepositorySummary

There are four repositories:

/www/www.apache.org/dist/java-repository - ibiblio-sync m1 repo /www/www.apache.org/dist/maven-repository - ibiblio sync m2 repo /www/cvs.apache.org/dist/maven-snapshot-repository - snapshot m2 repo /www/cvs.apache.org/dist/repository - snapshot m1 repo

The aim being to kill the m1 repo's and replace them with the m2 repo's at some point soon.

There are various rules:

• jars must be: md5'd, sha1'd, pgp (.asc'd).

• only asf artifacts should be present

• SNAPSHOTs must not appear in the ibiblio-sync repos

• md5 files have a specified format

There are various issues:

• unknown releases have been done (velocity-dvsl)

• jars have been overwritten (commons-cli)

• unknown projects have been released (commons-grafolia? commons-jdbc2pool? magicGball?)

• oversight is therefore non-existent

• structure is sloppy in the m1 repos (tbh, it's sloppy in the m2 repos too)

• non-asf artifacts are there

There's history:

• This list was created with lofty goals - and various build system

involvement to create a repository structure of use to as many people as possible (the success of the maven repository having driven a desire to include all and not just maven)

• Now it's really just a place for managing the maven repository -

which the three main build systems in Java can all easily use (ant, maven1, maven2)

• The wiki is mostly a result of the former character; mostly water

under the bridge now.

There's a plan for needed docs from Brett:

We need:

• how to upload releases to the repository manually (ant users, etc)

• how to automate with Maven 1.x

• how to automate with Maven 2.x

There's docs from Robert:

• http://wiki.apache.org/asfrepository/RobertBurrellDonkin/MavenDocumentation