Hi,

I've had a little issue with regard to the latest release of maven
assembly plugin. Mostly because some issues I had reported and fixed
almost 3 months ago didn't make it into the release.

So I am being told that 1- there was a description of the issues to be
fixed, and 2- there was a 72h vote. I don't deny that, but this is not
enough for me.

First even though I've spent some time using maven or writing a couple
of plugins, I don't feel that I should intervene much on the dev list.
So I don't read it everyday.

Second, maven introduced a new concept here: its plugins are released
on a case by case basis. This makes it very powerful, but makes us
having to be careful all the time. With all the other open source
programs I follow up, there's a traditional beta or rc release that I
can test and notify the developers when they missed one issue I cared
for (in particular if I've provided a patch). That doesn't work here.
And no, I can't read every single message on every single developer
list of all the projects I am using to be sure that my fixes make it
into the programs I use.

When a milestone is about to be released, there should probably be a
way for us bug reporters to know. That's why I proposed to use Jira:
targeting an issue to a future release will notify me and I can react.

So maybe you have a better solution, but clearly there needs to be
something to accommodate the life for those like me who cannot spend
their time going through 1000s of emails on 10s of mailing lists.

Thanks for your understanding,

Jerome, just trying to improve the process

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