On 6/24/05, A Leg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Simon > > Thank's for your answer. > > I don't see any answer about the community process.
If you're talking about changes in Maven, the community is on the Maven lists, not here in Jakarta Commons. > To help for answer I explain this question below giving an example on > how it works with Jini : > When Jini team want to change/improve some specification. Before to do > it they propose it to the community, so community can vote. > > This is the way that all standards works (Iso, Env, etc..). > > Why maven, and more generaly, apache projects does not follow similar way ? You need to be asking these questions on the Maven lists. We're only customers of Maven here. ;-) -- Martin Cooper > It could be costly, for users, to change to often and standards try to > be stable. > That is why I was asking for the reasons of change : to know what will > be the benefits, to understand and appreciate. > > Have fun > > Andre > > > Simon Kitching wrote: > > >On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 08:36 +0000, A Leg wrote: > > > > > >>Hi > >> > >>I just got a look on maven 2 description and I have some questions ? > >> > >> > > > >I suggest you try the maven list for answers specifically about > >marmalade/jelly and the future of Maven. > > > > > > > >>What about marmelade license which seems not to be Apache License V2 ? > >> > >> > > > >It's a BSD license which is perfectly compatible with the Apache > >license. Not every good project in the world is here at Jakarta... > > > > > > > >>What about living an Apache project for a codehaus project ? > >> > >> > > > >If people think it's better then it's their choice. Projects get > >superceded by better designs over time - that's progress. Sometimes it > >happens as version N+1 of an existing project, sometimes it's something > >external. > > > >Besides, I *believe* that maven2 provides the option to use Marmalade, > >Jelly or any other language. So it's adding options rather than dropping > >Jelly support. > > > > > > > >>I personaly feel that all hat moves : ant to maven, cvs to subversion, > >>jelly to marmalade where people create news peojects instead of > >>contributing to improve existing one, all these moves are not a big > >>advantage for open source. > >> > >> > > > >If you don't like change, I'm afraid you're in the wrong industry. > >Computer software is improving fast, and that means change. Yes it's a > >little tiring to keep up sometimes but that's better than stagnation. > > > >It's not just open source; people are screaming about the end of Visual > >Basic and Win9x. And Borland JBuilder users are facing a change soon - > >to a product built on Eclipse. Tough luck, times change. > > > > > > > >>Already my ISP does not support Linux because instead of having one good > >>linuxconf they have many "proprietary" configuration tools. > >> > >> > > > >Then they're fools. They should pick one linux distribution and stay > >with it; no need to support multiple types. And anyway the differences > >between linux variants really are pretty trivial. I suspect they're not > >telling you the real reason. > > > >Regards, > > > >Simon > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
