On 1/18/2011 at 12:14 PM, Robert Muir wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Steven A Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There clearly is no consensus for removing Maven support from Lucene. > > and see there is my problem, there was no consensus to begin with, now > suddenly its "de-facto" required. Maven is quite an insidious computer > virus.
So you think you personally have the power to remove functionality from Lucene that has the support of multiple committers? > >> Unfortunately there is a very loud minority that care about maven > > > > I would wager that there is a sizable silent *majority* of users who > literally depend on Lucene's Maven artifacts. > > I can't help but remind myself, this is the same argument Oracle > offered up for the whole reason hudson debacle > (http://hudson-labs.org/content/whos-driving-thing) > > Declaring that I have a secret pocket of users that want XYZ isn't > open source consensus. In summary: you claim a silent majority (of devs) in favor of your position, and I claim a silent majority (of users) in favor of mine. Your move: my majority, of which I have no proof, has no standing. Sweet. I dunno - why are we at war? Why is it so damn important that you *remove* functionality that devs care about and will support? Steve
