Il Sab 4 Mag 2024, 20:51 Joe Witt <joew...@apache.org> ha scritto: > 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. >
Indeed! Thank you for sharing your voice! Enrico > Thank you > Joe >