Re: Maven rant

2006-11-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Wendy Smoak wrote: I had problems today finding some documentation on the war plugin. Pretty standard stuff but I couldn't even find the plugins documentation start page in the left-hand menu, rather I found it on the home page (where I happened NOT to be to start with) in the text. I think this

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Wendy Smoak wrote: On 11/16/06, Adam Hardy Secondly the comments functionality or the link to the wiki is a pretty urgent requirement for me, and I think I'm a typical user. Where are you looking to add comments? Honestly I don't think we're going to get a 'comment mechanism' on the existing

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-16 Thread Adam Hardy
Just wanted to dredge up this old thread concerning documentation to find out what status it has now after the last conversation. I had problems today finding some documentation on the war plugin. Pretty standard stuff but I couldn't even find the plugins documentation start page in the

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-16 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 11/16/06, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]://mail.google.com/mail/ wrote: Just wanted to dredge up this old thread concerning documentation to find out what status it has now after the last conversation. I think this was already in the works when this thread started, but the plugins and guides

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-16 Thread Gisbert Amm
Wendy Smoak wrote: Any thoughts on what a menu link on each plugin site might be called? For example, I'm planning to link Maven Javadoc Plugin http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin to its wiki page http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Javadoc+Plugin Just Wiki seems

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-06 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 11/5/06, David Whitehurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I WIKI everything and I wish I had a public WIKI to write in that I felt comfortable that would stay there for all to see and wouldn't change. That's not really the nature of wikis... people will come along and edit what you've written.

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-06 Thread Mykel Alvis
OK. I like this, too, but there's already the mechanism for doing this in the form of documentation for the individual components. Specifically, the how to use sections of most of the plugins, which are a huge portion of the how to maven world, are weak. However, since it requires the

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-06 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 10/31/06, Jeff Mutonho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: documents say.That led me to http://maven.apache.org/wagon/ and clicking on the Getting Started link I ended up at the URL http://maven.apache.org/wagon/guides/getting-started/index.html , and almost every link there leads to a :

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-05 Thread franz see
Good day to you all, fellow Maven Users, I agree that right now, maven documentation is scattered. We have the apache maven site ([1]), the docus you can build with the source code (checkout the source and do mvn site [2]...and btw, the maven site can be checked out as well [3]), the mailing

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-05 Thread David Whitehurst
Excellent thoughts! I want to adopt maven2 and in-fact we are debating the issue at work. And the cons are the lack of documentation and the fact that ANT is easier to customize. And, that's what we all do, customize everything to support our needs. I WIKI everything and I wish I had a public

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-05 Thread Dennis Lundberg
David Whitehurst wrote: Excellent thoughts! I want to adopt maven2 and in-fact we are debating the issue at work. And the cons are the lack of documentation and the fact that ANT is easier to customize. And, that's what we all do, customize everything to support our needs. I WIKI

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-04 Thread Josh Long
Onderwerp: Re: Maven rant Why not use the central repo for documentation aswell? E.g. in http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/plugins/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/2.0-alpha-2/ could exist a bundle named user-manual.zip, containing the sources for the user-manual. There could be a reference

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-03 Thread Gisbert Amm
Why not use the central repo for documentation aswell? E.g. in http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/plugins/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/2.0-alpha-2/ could exist a bundle named user-manual.zip, containing the sources for the user-manual. There could be a reference-manual.zip, a

RE: Maven rant

2006-11-03 Thread Minto.van.der.Sluis
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Gisbert Amm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: vrijdag 3 november 2006 9:43 Aan: Maven Users List Onderwerp: Re: Maven rant Why not use the central repo for documentation aswell? E.g. in http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/plugins/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/2.0

RE: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Sebastien Brunot
be a no cost operation, and having a predefined structure may help to achieve this goal. Sebastien -Original Message- From: Sebastien Arbogast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:45 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Maven rant 2 thoughts about what you wrote

RE: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Vincent Massol
-Original Message- From: Sebastien Brunot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: jeudi 2 novembre 2006 10:26 To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: Maven rant I'm just joining, but what about creating a wiki with the entire free maven book content so that the (user) community can update

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Sebastien Arbogast
. Sebastien -Original Message- From: Sebastien Arbogast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:45 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Maven rant 2 thoughts about what you wrote Vincent: I totally agree on the fact that a few people have to write the core of the documentation

RE: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Sebastien Brunot
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:31 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Maven rant But you won't solve the main issue of a wiki system: information replacement. I still think that a comment system would be more reliable on the long term. 2006/11/2, Sebastien Brunot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Adam Hardy
Wendy Smoak wrote: On 10/31/06, Sebastien Arbogast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think of Hibernate or PHP documentation: one base reference book with DYNAMIC comments in which people can share their thoughts and experiences about each feature/chapter, remarks that can be later integrated when the

RE: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Sebastien Brunot
Good ! When do you think it would be possible to have it online ? Sebastien -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:44 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Maven rant Wendy Smoak wrote: On 10/31/06, Sebastien Arbogast [EMAIL

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 11/2/06, Sebastien Brunot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good ! When do you think it would be possible to have it online ? Have what online? We need to decide what it is first. :) What we have available is all of Maven's documentation, (some of which is generated, some is in APT format,) and

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread kelvin goodson
What I'd like to do for comments is make use of the MAVENUSER wiki [1]. I'd like to see a link on every plugin site so that users can share configuration examples or tell us that something is just plain wrong. +1 to that

RE: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Sebastien Brunot
What I meant by it was the comment mechanism. Sebastien -Original Message- From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:35 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Maven rant On 11/2/06, Sebastien Brunot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good ! When do you

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Mykel Alvis
My $0.02: First of all, lets note that I make most of my livelihood working on maven builds, so this is not (repeat NOT) criticism of the product, developers, or community at large. The maven users list (and the associted developers lists and users lists for all the OTHER

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 11/2/06, Sebastien Brunot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I meant by it was the comment mechanism. Right... it doesn't exist yet, we need to design it. Earlier, I asked, Any ideas on how to present that as an option? What would the menu link be called? How should the pages on the wiki be

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 11/2/06, Mykel Alvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like it or not, people read a lot of wikis, but rarely write to them. They WILL, however, provide their comments from the peanut gallery on a mailing list. I'm currently looking at 1212 unread messages in my inbox from this list. That's from

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Adam Hardy
Wendy Smoak on 02/11/06 22:34, wrote: On 11/2/06, Sebastien Brunot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I meant by it was the comment mechanism. Right... it doesn't exist yet, we need to design it. The comment mechanism can be a wiki where the public can only add at the bottom of the page, and

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Thomas Van de Velde
The problem, as I see it, is that the documentation is fragmented. Unlike Hibernate and Spring, which provide a single reference manual which is kept up to date with every release, Maven documentation is spread all over the place (wiki, generated sites, better builds with Maven, etc.). The

Re: Maven rant

2006-11-02 Thread Gregory Kick
Ok, this is think outside the box time... I like Thomas' comments on centralizing documentation. I really, really like Thomas' comments on centralizing documentation. However, I think the logistics may be off. I'm thinking of the documentation problem as similar to the build problem. Before

Re: Maven rant

2006-10-31 Thread jiangshachina
Hello Jeff, I think it's really a trouble. But all will be OK, I'm sure of that. Best Regards. a cup of Java, cheers! Sha Jiang Jeff Mutonho wrote: Is maven in the process of unintentionally killing itself due to poor support and documentation?I may be wrong but I strongly feel that the

Re: Maven rant

2006-10-31 Thread dhoffer
Jeff, I use maven and I really like it and I don't want this to sound like negative criticism but you are right, the learning curve for maven newbie’s is huge and there just isn't much good docs available. I have wound up getting bits of pieces of info from here and there...it just takes so

RE: Maven rant

2006-10-31 Thread Vincent Massol
-Original Message- From: Sebastien Arbogast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: mardi 31 octobre 2006 14:18 To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Maven rant I totally agree but I think that the problem is very difficult to solve, especially with all the incredible amount

Re: Maven rant

2006-10-31 Thread dhoffer
I think your right; I understand it's a hard problem to solve. That's way I'm not negative on maven; I just think it's a big issue that needs attention. The people that know this stuff, the developers that write maven probably aren't great documentation people or if they are just don't have the

Re: Maven rant

2006-10-31 Thread Sebastien Arbogast
the scenes. IMHO, Maven documentation should look like that: http://drupal.org/handbooks 2006/10/31, Vincent Massol [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Sebastien Arbogast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: mardi 31 octobre 2006 14:18 To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Maven rant

Re: Maven rant

2006-10-31 Thread Jeff Mutonho
On 10/31/06, Vincent Massol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW there's already a Maven wiki which is opened to anyone interested. It's been there for more than a year but I wouldn't call the result comprehensive documentation. Thanks -Vincent I'm sure there are many people who might want to

Re: Maven rant

2006-10-31 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 10/31/06, Sebastien Arbogast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think of Hibernate or PHP documentation: one base reference book with DYNAMIC comments in which people can share their thoughts and experiences about each feature/chapter, remarks that can be later integrated when the reference is

Re: Maven rant

2006-10-31 Thread Wayne Fay
The Documentation Check (DOCCK) plugin was recently created to help address this very issue. It will help not only Maven but also its plugins and even other projects/plugins using Maven. Maven Dev has established a baseline for expected documentation and will now use this plugin to enforce that

Re: Maven rant

2006-10-31 Thread Arnaud Bailly
Wayne Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Documentation Check (DOCCK) plugin was recently created to help address this very issue. It will help not only Maven but also its plugins and even other projects/plugins using Maven. Hello to all, And first great thanks to all maven developers and