GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1 - Proposed Build Improvements for

• build external SNAPSHOT dependencies along with 3.1 builds.
• promote external dependencies with 3.1.
• SNAPSHOT timestamps - so that modules can be built independently.
• eparate Maven repository to SNAPSHOT /nightly / weekly (promoted)
• remove packager/distribution from 3.1 so that it builds/promotes independently. This is to resolve external module integration that has dependency on 3.1 artifacts. For example, scripting has a dependency on glassfish-api and if there are any changes in glassfish-api that scripting depends on, it needs to wait for glassfish-api to first be promoted then integrated in scripting. There's a week overhead before scripting gets bundled in packager/distribution.
• mirror and tag all GF external projects (even Sun controlled ones). Currently we are mirroring the 3rd-party projects. This is so that we have better source control.