On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 01:16 -0500, Henri Yandell wrote: > I just got coding on Commons stuff again after a bit of an absence. > UGH! I don't mean to diss the good work that people have put in on > adapting maven to fit what we want, but given that I use maven daily > at work and with osjava hacking, it's amazing how complex this seems. > > As I said, it's not the fault of those making the impossible possible, > rather I think it's that we need to give up some of our desires and > simplify our usage of Maven. ie) our very specific needs need to be > challenged and made to justify themselves. > > Maybe I'm being a bit harsh :)
i think that there are two different kinds of specific need here. IMO both are not negotiable (for different reasons). the ASF has a few specific needs which maven either does not provide at the moment (for example, NOTICE.xml) or which maven should not provide since they are too specific to the ASF (for example, the symlink build structure). these needs are non-negotiable. i think that these needs are best satisfied by the creation of a jakarta or apache plug-in as suggested by brett. there are another set of needs which fall under best practise. over the last year (or two), the commons has started to come under intense scrutiny. we are now the establishment and any times that we fall short of the highest standards, we can expect to be held up as examples of bad practise throughout the java community. i agree with stephen that our releases now need to be of the highest possible standard. i'm no longer to willing to accept lower quality releases as a result of using maven. so again, these are not negotiable. in the past, we haven't been very effective (as we might) at feeding through these emerging best practises to maven. it's pretty much been only phil. i'm going to try to be more active (and hope others will do the same). however, it is clear that one problem we have is that the feedback cycle is too inefficient: we can't afford to wait a month or two for new plugin releases and we're finding it hard to ensure everyone has the required versions. perhaps managing our plugin would made this easier. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
