[fulcrum] Moving from M1 to M2

Hi folks,

I wrote a parent pom and migrated the builds of the following projects 
to M2 (in order to bootstrap the M2 development)

+) fulcrum-yaafi
+) fulcrum-testcontainer
+) fulcrum-commonsemail

Before I call a vote to release the parent pom and affected fulcrum 
components we need an agreement on the following points

1) parent pom
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This was shamelessly nicked from Apache Commons and slightly 
modified/improved - it is much better than anything I can write from the 
scratch. Having said that it is complex and work in progress - you only 
know that your parent pom is good when you did a few component releases.

The good thing is that we have a documentation how to release using M2 
but this document is also work in progress 
(http://wiki.apache.org/commons/CreatingReleases) - since I'm in the 
lucky position to cut a commons release next week I will have a few more 
ideas soon ...

2) groupId
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The groupId is currently 'fulcrum' but it could/should be 
'org.apache.turbine.fulcrum'. On the one hand this is the proper group 
on the other hand you have to manually update your build if you want to 
use the M2 artifacts. But we can't change after the first M2 releases ....

3) Download Page
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I'm currently unable to automatically generate a download page for the 
released artifacts

+) create it manually if needed - see 
http://turbine.apache.org/fulcrum/fulcrum-yaafi/downloads.html
+) just skip it since most components are not downloaded separately but 
only referenced in a build

4) Site Generation
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Please check the site if I did miss something obvious

+) http://turbine.apache.org/fulcrum/fulcrum-yaafi/index.html
+) http://turbine.apache.org/fulcrum/fulcrum-testcontainer/index.html 
(not yet mirrored - deployed today)
+) http://turbine.apache.org/fulcrum/fulcrum-commonsemail/index.html 
(not yet mirrored - deployed today)

5) Dependency Management
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I make the following assumptions regarding a fulcrum component

+) it exposes a transitive dependency on avalon-framework-api
+) it exposes NO transitive dependency on an Avalon container (ECM, YAAFI)
+) it exposes NO transitive dependency on avalon-framework-impl


6) Maintaining the M1 build in parallel
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A lot of folks are using M1 and are not familiar with M2 - I suggest an 
ongoing M1 support but no M1 based releases.


Cheers,

Siegfried Goeschl