A regular Maven hangout would be great. I have been contemplating doing that for the android maven plugin community alone for a while already. Maybe I kick that off with the upcoming release of 4.0.0 ;-)
manfred Jason van Zyl wrote on 11.06.2014 06:32: > Generally in the last 13 years these types of meetings have resulted in very > little other than people who are being paid to work on Maven. First it's not a > trivial amount of money for many to travel across the world for a meeting and > miss several days of work, even if you live in Europe. Second, having these > big-bang, lets-change-the-world events have always dissipated out pretty fast. > This is not cynicism, this is just observed fact over the years. If no one is > working on basic maintenance and bug fixing then I highly doubt anything > bigger > is going to change. > > However, I do think that talking with others is orders of magnitude more > productive than mailing lists, but we can start doing this today with a Google > hangout. Having face-to-face meetings more often and discussing changes I > think > would be a positive step forward and doesn't require traveling around the > world > to accomplish. > > I am highly encouraged of late by the pull requests coming in for the core and > right now that's the biggest avenue of change. I don't think we need to have > grand, in person meetings to affect change. We've had recent significant > contributions in m2e lately and I'm not sure why but I think we have to > capitalize on that and do things that are easier for people like hangouts, and > not things that are costly and time consuming like conferences. > > Personally I would love it if we had a weekly Google hangout to chat about > Maven. I think that would have a chance of changing something. A big meeting > at > a conference having any real impact I think is close to zero based on my > personal experience. Not that it isn't nice to meet with people and talk if > you > can, but trying to do planning for a project like this where many are > immediately excluded by virtue of geography, time/money is not a great thing. > > On Jun 11, 2014, at 1:53 AM, Kristian Rosenvold <kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I've been considering attending apachecon in Budapest, and I would be >> really interested in creating a meet up to discuss "future maven" (for >> one or more days). It would be interesting to see if we'd be capable >> of using such an occasion to determine a little more about the "big >> picture" future of maven, possibly even discuss a proper "4.0" release >> and/or work through the reality of revised pom versions/formats. Like >> a lot of us I seem to be having trouble finding time for more than >> incremental (minor) improvements. It also seems like a lot of the >> stuff on the current "4.0" list is quite minor stuff and I'd really >> enjoy an occasion to investigate big changes :) >> >> Anyone else interested ? >> >> Kristian >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > http://twitter.com/takari_io > --------------------------------------------------------- > > First, the taking in of scattered particulars under one Idea, > so that everyone understands what is being talked about ... Second, > the separation of the Idea into parts, by dividing it at the joints, > as nature directs, not breaking any limb in half as a bad carver might. > > -- Plato, Phaedrus (Notes on the Synthesis of Form by C. Alexander) > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
