Hm... sure Jason had and still has lots of influence. But so does Linus and so do other BDFL's. Imho the Maven project has tons of good people involved in the community around the core and the plugins. Jason is one of them and there are MANY others. There should be cooperation and open communication happening as much as possible.
Clearly there is room for improvement. manfred > > Good Afternoon Manfred > > from my understanding the maven hierarchy looks like: > JASON (aka god) > | > v > Everyone else > > (pull up a pew) > > Bedankt, > Martin > ______________________________________________ > Jogi és Bizalmassági kinyilatkoztatás/Verzicht und > Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité > Ez az > üzenet bizalmas. Ha nem ön az akinek szánva volt, akkor kérjük, hogy > jelentse azt nekünk vissza. Semmiféle továbbítása vagy másolatának > készítése nem megengedett. Ez az üzenet csak ismeret cserét szolgál és > semmiféle jogi alkalmazhatósága sincs. Mivel az electronikus üzenetek > könnyen megváltoztathatóak, ezért minket semmi felelöség nem terhelhet > ezen üzenet tartalma miatt. > > Diese Nachricht ist vertraulich. Sollten Sie nicht der vorgesehene > Empfaenger sein, so bitten wir hoeflich um eine Mitteilung. Jede unbefugte > Weiterleitung oder Fertigung einer Kopie ist unzulaessig. Diese Nachricht > dient lediglich dem Austausch von Informationen und entfaltet keine > rechtliche Bindungswirkung. Aufgrund der leichten Manipulierbarkeit von > E-Mails koennen wir keine Haftung fuer den Inhalt uebernehmen. > Ce message est confidentiel et peut être privilégié. Si vous n'êtes pas le > destinataire prévu, nous te demandons avec bonté que pour satisfaire > informez l'expéditeur. N'importe quelle diffusion non autorisée ou la > copie de ceci est interdite. Ce message sert à l'information seulement et > n'aura pas n'importe quel effet légalement obligatoire. Étant donné que > les email peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne > pouvons accepter aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. > > >> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:24:35 -0700 >> Subject: Re: PMC change explanation? >> From: manf...@mosabuam.com >> To: dev@maven.apache.org >> CC: bo...@apache.org >> >> I find it somewhat bewildering that there is no post of the vote or the >> results on the dev and users mailing lists I can see. Nor does the web >> site seem to be updated. >> >> http://maven.apache.org/team-list.html >> >> I would have expected more transparency from Apache. >> >> manfred >> >> > Jeff, >> > >> > I believe this strictly falls within the purview of the Apache Board >> to >> > explain. In particular Jim, Doug and Shane. >> > >> > Only the board has the right to reveal the business that has been >> > transacted on private lists. >> > >> > Rest assured that's Sonatype's commitment to Maven users and our >> pursuit >> > of innovation with respect to Maven-related technologies has not >> stopped, >> > and will not stop. >> > >> > On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Jeff Jensen wrote: >> > >> >> Is there a forthcoming explanation for a seemingly Maven PMC shakeup? >> >> I find it odd that consistently excellent contributors such as Lukas, >> >> Brian, et al are suddenly not on the Maven PMC. This is concerning >> as >> >> these are people who have drastically improved and moved Maven >> >> forward. It's very concerning that a heavy committer such as >> Benjamin >> >> is no longer committing as he has done very useful, fantastic work. >> >> These events are very concerning for the forward progress of Maven. >> >> The strong temptations for competitive products, a la Gradle, do not >> >> allow Maven progress to stop; particularly the best progress to date >> >> of the past year. These events are detrimental. For us uninformed, >> >> what happened, why is it good, what is the plan forward behind this? >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> 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 >> > --------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > We all have problems. How we deal with them is a measure of our worth. >> > >> > -- Unknown >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org