Hi Sebastien, I'm glad that you liked the m1 book ;-) but I'm sorry that you don't like the new m2 one...
There are probably several reasons. One of them may be that it's hard to write with a consistent voice and consistent progression when several authors write at the same time. OTOH this has allowed us to cover an important variety of topics and to release the book when it was needed. I guess the other hard part when we wrote the m2 book is that m2 was and still is evolving. This is one reason why an online format is a good choice. So I guess that in order to improve in the next release of the m2 book we should get someone to review/reorder/rewrite the junctions between the different chapters to get a more seamless flow between them and so that the progression remains constant. What would make this even easier would be to get help from the community to tell us precisely where things should be improved. AFAIK there's no Maven2 Developer's Notebook in the pipeline and I think we should be able to improve this one over time. It's an online book and thus has the power of being modified more easily. Thanks for your feedback. -Vincent > -----Original Message----- > From: Sebastien Arbogast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: samedi 15 juillet 2006 18:11 > To: Maven users list > Subject: Maven book: feedback > > Hi, > > I'm currently in the process of reading "Better builds with Maven" and > to be honnest... I'm quite disappointed. I found "Maven Developer's > notebook" for Maven 1 excellent, and I said it a few times on this > list. It's even one of the books I used the most often for some time. > And when Vincent Massol announced at JavaPolis in last december that a > free Maven2 book was on its way, I was very excited, because I dreamt > of such a good book combined with all the marvels of Maven2 that he > demonstrated. > > When I started reading "Better Builds with Maven" for the first time, > just after it was released, I was quickly annoyed by the number of > errors and the inconsistence of sample source code with what was > reproduced in the book. So I waited for the updated version with > corrected errata and I'm reading it right now... and I'm somewhat > disappointed because it puzzles me more than anything. > > It starts off with a very basic introduction to what is Maven, how it > was designed... and suddenly, it jumps straight up to web services and > very elaborated samples that have nothing to do with a progressive and > pragmatic approach. Even worse: samples are full of noise concerning > exotic plugins and their configuration and the structure is very... > weird. > > I'm not into free criticism, but I think feedback is important, even > when it's negative. And based on that, I would like to know if there > is a Maven2 Developer's Notebook in the pipeline, something more > pragmatic, something simpler, something that would give justice to the > beauty of Maven2. Because I'm afraid this one could frighten new users > more than encourage them to abandon their old Ant scripts. Because I > would even be ready to pay a few tens of bucks just to get the same > experience I had with the first O'Reilly volume. And because > obviously, I miss a lot of knowledge to write it myself. > > Once again, don't take me wrong: this is not free criticism, this is > just my humble yet negative feedback as a user who's been using Maven1 > for about a year and a half on personal and professional projects, and > who's looking for an efficient and comprehensive reference book to > migrate to Maven 2 and understand its changes pragmatically and > progressively. > > -- > Sébastien Arbogast > > http://www.sebastien-arbogast.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail et son interface révolutionnaire. http://fr.mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
