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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org