Release Shopping List
ATM we've got a problem with releases. They take too long to cut and check since there's lots and lots of little things that good Jakarta Commons releases should have that maven 1 doesn't do by default. This is the shopping list. Please help to fill it up.
NOTICE + LICENSE
Both LICENSE and NOTICE files need to be included: by default maven only includes the LICENSE
Consistent Line Endings
Having windoz line endings in the zip and *nix in the tar.gz would make many windoz users happy.
Accurate Building Against 1.3
It's very important commons to be able to build against Java 1.3 even now maven requires 1.4. Good 1.3 builds using 1.4 is tricky. Difficult to solve this one.
IDE Friendly Source And Javadoc Jars
Modern IDEs can associate javadoc and source jars with the binaries. We haven't distributed these in the past but doing so would make many folks very happy.