On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:03, Steve Garcia wrote: > Will the book provide documentation in addition to (hopefully) the 1.0 final > documentation that will get updated at maven.apache.org? Or will the book > contain a substantial amount of documentation that cannot be found on the > web?
It will more than likely be information that can't be found on the web. I would like to release an electronic copy of the book for free but I don't think I'll be able to swing that. > I myself would like to see a complete Maven documentation effort be released > on the maven website, much like Ant's documentation is all on the website. Publishers are not really into giving away the content of books they intend to sell. I think it could work in their favour much like it did for Bruce Eckel's books but the decision is not ultimately up to me. I can only ask that an electronic copy be put on the web at no cost. > I'm not sure spending between $30 and $40 for the Maven book for > documentation would be something that the masses want. That why publishers try to do a little market research. The book won't be printed unless they can expect to sell a reasonable number of copies, say 10k copies. > Complete documentation, with the general specificity that Ant provides, > would be sufficient for me, and I probably speak for the majority of Maven > users. > > Would the book target the Maven 1.0 release? Or the Maven 2.0 release? (or > the Maven-New 1.0 release?) I'm shooting for the new version and you have to remember it can take quite a bit of time to write a book. Even with two people. -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
