> The Maven site is not the most friendly place to start as a new Maven > user but it is not the only resource. > > Perhaps the community should try to come to a consensus about the books > and recommend one as the "best" starting point for a new user and one as > the best place to find "Best Practices".
We may need more Maven documentation like this: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ But no matter what is done along these lines, you will always have some nontrivial percentage of the population that "doesn't have time to read all of that" and just wants to make their build work right now. We can point people at books all day long but they can (and do) ignore that advice. The reality is that Maven has a bit of a learning curve and most people new to it (mostly coming from Ant) will try to mold Maven to their uses (by applying it to their existing projects and swapping Ant config for Maven plugin config line by line) instead of leveraging the great functionality out of the box (with zero config so long as you stick with those pesky conventions). I'm not sure how to help people short-circuit this learning process even WITH documentation. ESR's essay on asking the right questions is key to getting proper help on this list: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#goal Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
