On 2010-11-01 22:48, Jason van Zyl wrote: > 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.
I agree with you that we need to be able to support the stuff that we house. If we can't maintain it we need to let it go. But what has that got to do with site generation and reporting plugins? > >>> 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: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > --------------------------------------------------------- > > the course of true love never did run smooth ... > > -- Shakespeare > > > > -- Dennis Lundberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
