Dear Anyone that Ever Contributed to Apache Maven and especially the Maven PMC
I've been working on what is now Apache NiFi since 2006. I don't recall exactly when the switch to Maven occurred but it was close to the 2008 release of the definitive guide book. When we first open sourced in late 2014 Karl Heinz Marbaise contributed a PR and I remember how awesome that was for us if for no other reason than we relied on Maven so much and even then were getting help from Maven folks to do it right. NiFi is a fairly large codebase with a wild amount of modules and so on. I cannot imagine NiFi ever making it to even become an ASF project nor scale the way it has without Maven and what it does. I get that it isn't perfect but it is really darn good. In the past several weeks I've really dove into building on some great work of other members of our community to improve our dependency management and I am quite stunned at all the tools and mechanisms Maven offer both built-in and through its impressive plugin ecosystem. You are all doing insanely good work. The Java community as a whole owes you tremendously. Thank you Joe
