On 09/03/2013, at 9:43, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 22:45 +0100, Cédric Champeau wrote: >> Le 06/03/2013 19:00, Russel Winder a écrit : >>> It somehow seems sad that Gradle developers are moving to a policy of >>> "Public API files must be written in Java because GroovyDoc sucks", >>> however right they may be. >> This is indeed very sad. It's sad for many reasons but there's still >> hope: we already planned a rewrite of GroovyDoc for Groovy 2.2. What >> people in general need to understand is that Groovy is an open-source, >> community based project. If groovydoc sucks (does it really?), there's >> still the ability to contribute. Some of us are paid to work on Groovy >> and this is an amazing chance for the language but unfortunately, we >> cannot do everything by ourselves. This is something that can be hard to >> understand... Anyway, I know one of our most recent committers, namely >> Tim Yates, proposed to help for the rewrite. Any help would be greatly >> appreciated, because neither me, Jochen, Guillaume or Paul will have >> time to work on this :( > > Some people are effectively paid to work on Gradle, apparently it is not > considered appropriate to give back to Groovy by fixing GroovyDoc, > instead a workaround of avoiding Groovy and writing in Java is > apparently considered more appropriate. I very much resent what you are insinuating here Russell. I interpret your wording to say that we are not being good citizens. This is unfair and uncalled for. We (i.e.) have an immediate problem in that the current tools we are using to produce documentation have been proven inadequate and we are discussing pragmatic ways to solve our problem. Idealism and dogma have no place in this discussion. > > Sadly I cannot commit to helping a GroovyDoc rewrite just now, but I can > certainly help by trying things out and reporting back. > > -- > Russel. > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
