The goal is to put this on the front page so that people know enough to decide if they need/want to dig deeper
On Monday, 6 January 2014, Russell Gold wrote: > Of course, you could say that about Gradle, too. And ant now does have the > ability to use those dependency features. > > I went through this when creating my video course (not in the sig because > this is work email). It’s not clear to me that you can make a one sentence > description that will provide sufficiently useful information unless > something like: > > "Maven is a build tool which consumes and produces artifacts managed in a > repository." > > But that is not going to help people coming new to the project. > > I think I am missing the motivation here.Is the target for this > description people deciding whether to try Maven? People trying to learn > how to use it? > > On Jan 6, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Lyons, Roy <roy.ly...@cmegroup.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/New+Main+Site it > says: > > > > We need a short and snappy description of what Maven is: > > > > "Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool." > > > > Is just not an easy to understand description of what Maven is. > > > > > > > > > > I would like to submit my short description for review. > > > > "Apache Maven is a convention-over-configuration build tool which has > great dependency management features." > > > > I know that it does more than that - but I feel that at its core, this > is what it really is. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org<javascript:;> > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org<javascript:;> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org <javascript:;> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org<javascript:;> > > -- Sent from my phone
