Re: [JGIT] Request for help

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Mark Struberg[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi!

Work has been done at

http://github.com/sonatype/JGit/tree/mavenize

Please feel free to pull/fork and share your changes! I'd be happy to pull it in.

@Gabe: your patch seems to got filtered by the list, I think sharing such big things is easier by using github. Would be cool if you could help us!

Ok, I'll fork and send a patch request shortly.  I was thinking about
it earlier, and I may add a couple of features that all OS projects
should follow (e.g. License in the jar, etc.).

As to a few questions that have been raised:
1) I pick the 'sources' folder because it's good metadata management.
Everything in the root folder should be about or related to managing
the project.  No direct source folders, as it clutters the layout.
Best to be perfectly clear where all the action is happening.  It's a
simple convention I wished more projects followed.
2) I haven't worked with the find-bugs plugin.  I looked it up, but it
seems to only generate documents in the 'site'/reporting profile.
Thus it wouldn't necessarily affect the building of the software.  It
would really only be useful if you had something like a Hudson CI
infrastructure or site generation going on to build a website and show
the reports.  I could certainly add that, though, if you like.
3) The LICENSE file can be at the top level.  Not really an issue for
me one way or another.  Just a personal preference on how I have
structured all of my previous Maven projects.

-Gabe