Hey Wearing on my rebel hat today, I'd like to propose we drop maven support from our release process / build system. I've always read about the maven artifacts never being produced right, and never working (or maybe never is a too harsh word).
I personally don't understand why we struggle to support Maven. I'm perfectly fine if we say that "Lucene/Solr uses SVN, Ant and release a bunch of .jar files you can embed in your project". Who says we need to support Maven? And if so, why only Maven (I'm kidding !)? Are you with me? :) Shai