Mailing lists are often overrun with people complaining and reporting bugs and squabbles and whatnot. I wanted to take a brief moment to simply say thanks to all for what has finally evolved into a really useful product.
I love the fact that I can pull down most open source projects these days, and, without really thinking too hard about it, pull up their pom.xml file and at least have a rough idea of what they're trying to accomplish. I love that building and installing such a project has become as simple as mvn clean install. I love that I don't have to get in the head of whichever build-engineer-of-the-moment crafted a hand-rolled Ant or Gradle build. I love that as bulky and annoying as it can be, at least XML is declarative and easily read. Anyhow, thanks. Maven is not an easy system to learn, but once you do it pays off. Best, Laird
