I think the Maven 2 work is a significant project. It appears to me that RTC has worked really well
in increasing e-mail traffic on the list exponentially but I too would agree that it has not been
totally productive. Here is my assessment:
1. Everyone agrees that this work needs to be done.
2. The overall approach is generally accepted.
3. I believe that Jason and others that have been working on the conversion (not to mention the
voluminous amount of work on the part of Prasad and Anita as well as Jencks) and understand what
needs to be done.
4. Maven 1 still works in trunk and Maven 2 is broken.
I suggest that we agree that the team doing the conversion be allowed to make the changes directly
in trunk. They are not disrupting anything they are currently fixing a move to an already agreed to
build change. Rather than have RTC be the model I move that we allow them to continue to
communicate through e-mail to keep everyone up to date on the status of the migration.
My goal is not to bypass RTC but merely to acknowledge that in the case of this migration it is not
the best tool to accomplish the task.
John and Jacek since you are the active committers on the PMC perhaps you can discuss this and
provide some relief in the process.
Cheers.
Jacek Laskowski wrote:
Hi,
After having read so many emails with frustration and disgust, I think
we could get rid of these shortcomings and do the migration in a
branch - m2migration or alike. The idea of the branch would be to
loosen up the RTC rules that are bound to the trunk and let people
experimenting - do the migration without having to follow RTC,
preparing patches that don't work for everyone, but often very
temporarily until they're again fixed and improved.
Thoughts?
Jacek
