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+############
+# README.txt
+############
+
+# Explanation of files found within maven-meeper
+
+##########################
+# One-button synchronizing
+##########################
+
+## Script to synchronize m1 repositories, convert them to m2, fix them,
+## sync the m2 repositories to ibiblio and update the mod_rewrite rules
+./synchronize.sh
+
+## Configuration for the above
+./synchronize.properties
+
+####################################################
+# Upload bundles from the Maven JIRA to a repository
+####################################################
+
+## dos2unix function
+./bundle-upload/d2u
+
+## See: http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-ibiblio-upload.html
+## Pulls a bundle down via wget, deploys jar, pom, license file, java-sources, javadocs
+./bundle-upload/deploy-bundle
+
+##############################################
+# Convert an m1 repository to an m2 repository
+##############################################
+
+## java.net uses CVS and only certain parts need to be synced.
+./m1-m2-conversion/java.net/sync-repoclean.sh
+
+## configuration for the above
+./m1-m2-conversion/java.net/synchronize.properties
+
+## Uses http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/sandbox/repoclean/src/main/bash/repoclean.sh
+## which runs Java code to do the bulk of the work.
+./m1-m2-conversion/sync-repoclean.sh
+
+## configuration for the above
+./m1-m2-conversion/synchronize.properties
+
+## Maven 1 -> Maven 2 mod-rewriting
+./synchronize/m1-m2-mod-rewrite-rules.txt
+
+## rsyncs from an m2 repository somewhere onto a subdirectory of
+## the central repository. By choosing the subdirectory, some security is ensured.
+./synchronize/m2-sync/m2-sync.sh
+
+## Bash scripts that set variables to be used by the above script
+./synchronize/m2-sync/conf/codehaus.sh
+./synchronize/m2-sync/conf/displaytag.sh
+./synchronize/m2-sync/conf/net.databinder.sh
+./synchronize/m2-sync/conf/net.sourceforge.jwebunit.sh
+./synchronize/m2-sync/conf/net.sourceforge.maven-taglib.sh
+./synchronize/m2-sync/conf/org.acegisecurity.sh
+./synchronize/m2-sync/conf/org.apache.sh
+./synchronize/m2-sync/conf/org.mortbay.sh
+./synchronize/m2-sync/conf/org.objectweb.sh
+./synchronize/m2-sync/conf/org.springframework.sh
+./synchronize/m2-sync/conf/wicket.sh
+
+## rsyncs the central m2 repository over to the ibiblio mirror
+./synchronize/sync-central-to-ibiblio.sh
+
+##################################################
+# M1 synchronize from upstream repositories script
+##################################################
+## INI configuration files
+./synchronize/syncopate/conf/apache.conf
+./synchronize/syncopate/conf/codehaus.conf
+./synchronize/syncopate/conf/maven-plugins-sf.conf
+./synchronize/syncopate/conf/mortbay.conf
+./synchronize/syncopate/conf/objectweb.conf
+./synchronize/syncopate/conf/opensymphony.conf
+./synchronize/syncopate/conf/osjava.conf
+./synchronize/syncopate/conf/stage.conf
+./synchronize/syncopate/conf/test.conf
+
+## standard exclusions. you can add to it in the configuration files
+./synchronize/syncopate/exclusions.txt
+
+## INI perl parser - pulled down from CPAN etc
+./synchronize/syncopate/IniFiles.pm
+
+## The perl synchronization file
+./synchronize/syncopate/sync
+
+## top level configuration
+./synchronize/syncopate/syncopate.conf
+
+###############################
+# DELETE THESE IF INDEED UNUSED
+###############################
+./unused/artifact-map.txt
+./unused/rewrite.conf