On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Steven A Rowe <sar...@syr.edu> wrote:
>
> There clearly is no consensus for removing Maven support from Lucene.

and see there is my problem, there was no consensus to begin with, now
suddenly its "de-facto" required. Maven is quite an insidious computer
virus.

>
>> Unfortunately there is a very loud minority that care about maven
>
> I would wager that there is a sizable silent *majority* of users who 
> literally depend on Lucene's Maven artifacts.

I can't help but remind myself, this is the same argument Oracle
offered up for the whole reason hudson debacle
(http://hudson-labs.org/content/whos-driving-thing)

Declaring that I have a secret pocket of users that want XYZ isn't
open source consensus.

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