I know when I started with Maven in the 2.0 beta days, there really wasn't much documentation at all. The situation today is vastly different. I will admit that the organization of the site isn't great and honestly I just go to the index and pull the doc I need. (Yes even PMC members can't remember everything all the time). I've put thought into how it could be better organized, but haven't come up with a great solution.
Maven is big and complex and I think reading some of the first chapters of either book mentioned in this chapter really is needed to get a good foundation. One thing that comes to mind here that is missing is "How to find what you're looking for". Something to say, this is where the settings info is, here's the pom stuff, here's how to understand the plugin docs etc. I will try to find some time to put this together. The best way to get things clarified in the docs is to write a jira and submit a patch. Sometimes the more you use a system, the less obvious the lacking parts of the docs become, this is where we really need user (especially new ones) help to figure that out. I think it might also be helpful to add one of those google "search this site" things to the page. -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Lundberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 5:06 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Why Maven is Hard? Denis Bessmertniy wrote: > It is interesting why maven is so hard to understand? Why it is not well > documented? (It is all my own opinions) > I haven't so much probmlems with Ant, for example. Thanks to everybody for your input on this thread this far. I will try to sum up your thoughts later on and start separate threads regarding different ways that we can improve the situation. -- Dennis Lundberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
