Denis, I get what you mean now and I agree... I have spent hours with Maven debugging and I know what you feel.
It's been less than five hours since I had to download the source code of a plugin to see what was going on inside of it... and got no results. Fortunately, knowledgeable people writing on these lists helped me out and made me continue my journey. In the corporate world, these hold backs are a serious risk to profitability. I just hope that Maven plugins get better documentation. I have nothing to complain on Maven's own, but plugin writers forget that other people haven't seen the source code of their plugin (not to say that everyone would make much sense of it). Maybe one day... Regards, Rodrigo On 9/24/07, Gisbert Amm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael McCallum wrote: > > with a few subtle exceptions related to bugs that are fixed in 2.0.7every > > question i've been asked in regard to using maven2 has been found in the > > documentation in under 5 minutes > > That might be the case for the questions you came across. The mere > traffic on this list proves that there are indeed loads of questions the > documentation doesn't answer. Also this kind of thread about how > improvable the documentation is occurs frequently on this list. The last > big attempt to make the docs better has AFAIK been this one: > > http://www.nabble.com/Maven-2.x-documentation-tf382504s177.html#a1055690 > > Possibly that sort of campaign should be done on a regular base or, even > better, Maven should have a technical writer who cares about > documentation issues. I'm aware of the fact that Maven is a open source > project, however, there are businesses built around it (among other > tools) that might have an interest in better docs and less rant on the > mailing list. > > Just my 2 cents (I'm no native English speaker and therefore > unfortunately can't really help with this kind of task). > > -Gisbert > > -- > Gisbert Amm > Softwareentwickler Infrastruktur > Telefon: (0721) 91374 - 4224 > Telefax: (0721) 91374 - 2740 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Internet: www.1und1.de > > 1&1 Internet AG > Elgendorfer Strasse 57 > 56410 Montabaur > > Amtsgericht Montabaur HRB 6484 > > Vorstand: Ralph Dommermuth, Matthias Ehrlich, Andreas Gauger > (Vorsitzender), Matthias Greve, Henning Ahlert, Norbert Lang, Achim > Weiss, Robert Hoffmann, > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Michael Scheeren > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
