I think the mailing list is slow in general because there is really only one core developer, and I don't see the benefit in you having design discussions with yourself :). If we can get more contributors involved, I think the discussions will flow naturally. I continue to try to find time to get acquainted, but I find I can rarely keep up. Now that things are becoming more stable...?, it might be temping for people to get involved.
I am personally very interested in seeing how the maven core can supports .NET components. One great starting point would be implementing a surefire provider for nunit, a task that his been proven difficult or at least non-intuitive given the current surefire implementation. My 2 cents, Evan On 8/26/07, Shane Isbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I noticed the discussion on the mailing list has been a bit slow lately, > even with the prospect of doing a release. Initially I had hopes to get to > graduation within 12 months, but I realize from a community perspective we > have a long way to go. So I wanted to get some feedback from everybody in > terms of what they think we can do to improve the situation. > > I'm perfectly open to going back to the drawing board on any major issues. > I had hoped that the architecture for doing .NET plugins would bring in > .NET > developers, but I don't see this happening. The platform matching is a > pretty big chunk of code that the community may not find interesting, so I > need to find out whether this should still be supported. RDF has, at best, > gotten lukewarm acceptance. Finally, we have the big issue of how to bring > .NET support into Maven itself. > > Should we just start compiling a list of features and decide whether we > need > them and then open up the design? > > Shane >
