On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xavier et.al., > > Please take a look at the latest Builder resolver patch > (here< > http://code.google.com/p/ivyroundup/wiki/files/builder-resolver.patch.gz>) > and let me know what else is needed before this is suitable for inclusion > in > Ivy. Hopefully it's pretty close (the documentation gives a good > overview). The link gives a 404, so I can only say what I think of the patch you attached in your last e-mail. IMO, the patch quality is good overall. I think it still requires some more test (I don't think there's a test of m2resource for instance), and also some more comments in the code: I know Ivy code itself is not a very good example, but including code means maintaining it, and some more comments, especially in the xslt, may help. Besides the code quality, we need to evaluate the usefulness for the community. ATM, even though I like the idea, it seems the number of people interested is still low. Moreover, this resolver could be provided as a plugin, and as such don't really *require* to be included in Ivy core. So maybe you could start by providing it as an easy to use plugin, then we'd integrate it in Ivy core once the community interest will be large enough. We can still add a link or two in the official documentation (in the resolvers and links page for instance) to favor the adoption. OTOH, I encourage you to ping the ivy user mailing list about this project, you can even do it once a month to report progress and encourage people to join. Blogging and announcing is also a good way to get traffic and raise a community. > > > I'd also appreciate any comments on the roundup web > site<http://code.google.com/p/ivyroundup>and am looking for any > interested contributors/maintainers to join the > project. As I said in my previous e-mail I think better name consistency would really help. I don't have enough time to get actively involved ATM, but I'd be happy to at least share my ideas, so ping me if you create a dedicated mailing list (you can also use ivy user list at the beginning). Xavier > > > Thanks, > -Archie > > -- > Archie L. Cobbs > -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/
