Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] ECS 1.4.2 Released

On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 06:49 AM, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:00:43 +0100
> robert burrell donkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Also, the "copyright 1999-2002" -> "copyright 1999-2003", it seems.
>>> (robert, did you use the jakarta-site2 module when building the ecs
>>> website?)
>
>> yep. ecs is mature and stuff doesn't get used much. when i came to try to
>> use the build script, it'd no longer generate the documentation. so i 
>> used
>> the jakarta-site2 module. i will try to find time to fix the script but 
>> i
>> seem to be busting a gut doing infrastructure work for the pmc at the
>> moment.
>
> I see, thank you very much for the explanations.
>
> The Jakarta Project has 22 subprojects and each have own build systems,
> so I wondered how we could make it more systematic.
> (And I did not have much knowledge on the daedalus account...)

the policy at jakarta has always been to delegate as much as possible to 
each sub-project. so to have a common build system this means persuading 
each sub-project to adopt it. one of the aims of maven was to provide a 
means to achieve this. if every sub-project adopted maven and maven 
achieved it's long term goals, then it would provide such a system.

sam has managed to gain acceptance for a minimal set of build actions for 
use with gump. if you're interested in the documentation side of builds 
(rather than building the source) maybe jakarta alexandria might be a good 
place to ask these kinds of questions.

- robert