Hi, We have been chatting a little bit about Maven in IRC but I would just like to take the plunge and put the code in a jakarta-turbine-maven repository.
The definition of Maven is someone (in this case something) that is an expert, so in short Maven attempts to be a Java project expert. The whole basis of Maven is an accurate object model for a project. So once this model is worked out completely, and a good deal of it is, then all sorts of interesting things can fall out: build tools, metrics, continuous integration, documentation tools and the list goes on and on. I have talk to several people of the last while and so far I've got code donations from Tom Copeland who works on the importscrubber utility (importscrubber.sourceforge.net) and Juancarlo A�ez who wrote JRCS and a diff utility written in Java (http://www.suigeneris.org/software/). I have also talked with Tim Endres who has changed the license on his Java based cvs client library from GPL to LGPL so it can be used in Maven. I asked him if he wanted to donate the code to Apache but haven't heard back from him. Other people that I have talked to: Reto Kramer (who I meant at the AspectJ workshop) who is the author of iDoc, iContract, and iDarwin. I would like to integrate those tools into Maven but I couldn't find the source. iDoc and iDarwin are the most interesting to me, you can find out about them here: http://www.reliable-systems.com. I've also sent a message to David Peugh the author of Quilt which is a code coverage tool that uses the commons-graph package which I nudged Markus Dahm into donating (the BCEL guy). I would also like to chat with the Cruise Control guys but haven't done so yet. What I would like to do is use all the Turbine projects as a testbed before making any plans for Maven but the ultimate goal is to replace the Alexandria project which is defunct. I think if we can work out all the issues amongst our little family of projects then we will be well suited to deal with the rest of the world :-) I would like to take Pete up on his offer to document Maven so I would like to get the code into a repository so the documentation, testing and collaboration can start. I've been thinking about Maven a lot but there isn't a whole lot of code yet but I think the approach of starting with the object model is sound. So I would like to make a jakarta-turbine-maven repository and stick the code I have in their today. -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
