Hi everyone,
We've been trying for quite a long time to get into a mode of faster,
more incremental releases. However, when it comes to actually doing
this, we seem married to the idea of pushing out impressive feature
lists with new releases.
I'd like to call an end to that practice, and start pushing out a 2.1-
alpha-1 release of Maven. No, it's not perfect. No, it doesn't have
even the beginnings of some of the features we'd like to have in 2.1
eventually. Yes, there will be some regressions. But after all, this
would be the first alpha release of the 2.1 minor version...so it's
expected to be more of a quick sketch, and lacking some (perhaps
important) details.
2.1-SNAPSHOT already has some interesting new capabilities. I'm sure
I can't name them all, but I know that personally, I've enabled
custom profile activators and the ability to preview the build plan
before it's executed, among other things. We've (primarily Jason)
been steadily improving the embedder support, and that's gotten
pretty damn good at this point, too. I for one would like to start
getting some feedback about the stuff we're working on out here, and
I think putting together a packaged distribution is the best way to
go about that.
What do others think?
-john
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John Casey
Committer and PMC Member, Apache Maven
mail: jdcasey at commonjava dot org
blog: http://www.ejlife.net/blogs/buildchimp
