I agreed about the animal/mascot choice and its meaning. We come back to another thread (on dev ML AFAIR) : what Maven is for you ? How to describe it (easily) ? What is differentiating it from others tools like Makefile, ant, gradle, builder ....
Arnaud On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Mark H. Wood <mw...@iupui.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:53:46PM -0500, Jeffrey E Care wrote: > > Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote on 01/02/2014 > > 02:06:55 PM: > > > > > I personally liked the anteater idea... We can ask the Ant PMC if we > > have a > > > "winning" logo that we are worried about > > > > While some Ant folks might appreciate the tongue-in-cheek nature of an > > anteater logo, I think it be seen by many more folks as unnecessarily > > antagonistic. > > Perhaps. I think it's a cute idea, but I feel that Maven and Ant have > different jobs, so for many it might be puzzling instead. I think > there'd be quite a number of questions "why's your mascot an anteater, > of all things?" > > -- > Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu > Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient. > -- ----- Arnaud Héritier http://aheritier.net Mail/GTalk: aheritier AT gmail DOT com Twitter/Skype : aheritier
