On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > Hi Jason > > Doing some house cleaning among our plugins is a good thing, and I'm in > favor of retiring those that we feel that we cannot support. > > However it is not OK for you to go changing things in Subversion less > than an hour after your proposal (which wasn't even labeled as one). > That is not the way we do business here. For starters, people are on > different time zones. Secondly I feel that retiring a plugin is > something that should require a vote. Finally moving the stuff around in > Subversion will break links from the plugin sites and a lot of other > places. Please restore things in Subversion to how they were. >
As almost everything here, nothing is documented. I don't believe starting to cleanup requires a vote. It is also not irreversible. I happen to disagree with you. If you want to document something and we vote on the process that's fine by me. > On 2010-11-01 13:37, Jason van Zyl wrote: >> Following up from a discussion on the user list. I think it's time to be >> realistic about providing a healthy level of support for plugins here. I >> think it makes more sense to reduce the foot print of plugins we say we >> support and do those well as opposed to housing many plugin that just don't >> get much love. I would ask people to think about the plugins we're housing >> that we shouldn't. Probably a thread per plugin would be fine for >> discussion. >> >> To that end the plugins I'll send the first thread. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> Jason van Zyl >> Founder, Apache Maven >> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track >> of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget >> the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful >> groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a >> clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as >> signs of decline and decay. >> >> -- Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Dennis Lundberg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
