[rt-pmc] jetty7 distribution

[Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I started up a thread on this earlier and it ended up taking a spin
off into other things and I need to steer it back to the topic of our
two jsp artifacts and the cometd war file.

https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3457 - jsp-api-2.1
patched glassfish jasper api from glassfish tag
SJSAS-9_1_1-B60F-07_Jan_2009
https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3458 - jsp-2.1 patched
glassfish jasper api from glassfish tag SJSAS-9_1_1-B60F-07_Jan_2009
https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3459 - cometd demo war
file used for showing cometd features of jetty-distribution

Following the vein of the last thread I have started the process of
getting these artifacts into CQ's.  I have no idea how long this will
take to make it through as we are largely dealing with source and
processes that are outside of the jetty realm (being glassfish).
While jasper itself has been approved multiple times by the looks of
it in IPzilla, this is a different source location, different process
for contribution, etc etc.

I will not dispute the desire or need to have a proper official JSP
bundle/artifact that eclipse gets behind in the future, but for the
time being we would like to get our jetty7 release out the door from
eclipse and get moving on the parallel development and deployment of
jetty8 with servlet 3.0 features and get those in the hands of our
users as well.  It seems that these three artifacts are what are
holding us up from being able to make our jetty7 distribution and link
to it for users to download from eclipse.org as we have been for the
RC and Milestone releases up til now.

It sounds like we need an official exemption for us to ship our
jetty-distribution in the short term in a form that is akin to the
previous releases of jetty.  We'll be more then happy to switch over
to an official eclipse backed jsp implementation and api once one
exists in a form we can use but for the time being we have users that
we need to get an official jetty7 release out for.

Is this going to be possible or do I need to start chasing down the
alternative distribution scenarios for the jetty7 release?

cheers,
Jesse

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