On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:41 PM, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > On 2010-11-01 13:41, Jason van Zyl wrote: >> In much the same way we have a little sub-project for releasing I think it's >> time to have one for the site generation. Take the maven-site-plugin and any >> related plugins and move them into their own tree. What I'm trying to do >> here is cull the set of plugins we have is to keep the ones that are part of >> the core lifecycles and super popular plugins that get maintained like the >> dependency plugin and enforcer plugin. > > I'm not sure I understand what we would gain by doing this, if we cull > all the dead/inactive plugins. Can you elaborate some more? >
That we have a set of plugins that is actively maintained, released more on a regular basis. Reduce the surface area of what we have to make great because we honestly don't do a great job of releasing core plugins often enough. We should focus on the plugins in the core lifecycles, and we should be doing this well. Anything else we should really let a community have better access to and push it out to Mojo or Github. Plugins that are here people naturally, for whatever reason, assume we actively maintain them and we don't. I would rather do fewer things well. >> Thanks, >> >> Jason >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> Jason van Zyl >> Founder, Apache Maven >> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> >> You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. >> No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. >> They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically >> dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of >> dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or >> goals are in doubt. >> >> -- Robert Pirzig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance >> >> >> >> > > > -- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------- the course of true love never did run smooth ... -- Shakespeare
