+1 -----Original Message----- From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 7:32 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: [VOTE] Maven 3.0-alpha-1
Hi, This is really to get the ball rolling for Maven 3.x. While I have some gracious guinea pigs who are arduously pummeling this code base I wouldn't recommend anyone use this in production. If you want to try it and give feedback that's great, but we have a lot of work we know ourselves that needs to be done. Not trying to discourage anyone from trying it but I honestly wouldn't expect much for a at least a couple more weeks. Over the next few alphas the work will be dominated by bug fixing, regression fixing, general alignment with Maven 2.x so that all known requirements to run Maven 2.x plugins are satisfied, and refactoring to prepare the codebase for the fun stuff of adding new features. There is still a lot of work todo, but by the end of January I think I'll have a good enough idea to layout some tentative beta dates and for GA. I know this by guestimating based on myself, Shane, and Oleg working on this full-time and Benjamin working part-time. We are trying extremely hard to make everything accessible by producing tons of ITs, a specification for POM construction and builds coming off the grid at a very high frequency. I hope that fairly soon into the alpha cycle we can attract Ralph into the mix and soon after that more developers. My hope is that by the time the betas rolls around we have 4-5 people who know the core as well as Shane and I do now, and 7-8 by the time we hit GA. I think from this point I would like to try and eject and alpha every week or two with builds coming off the grid many times a day. Please don't expect too much from the distribution if you happen to download it as we know there are problems and we haven't started optimizing at all yet. Shane and I had to do a release before we went batty so we needed to get the process going. I don't think we are going to attempt to integrate newer build of Maven 3.x into m2e for a couple more alphas so anyone doing embedding work I can tell you that it's not time to integrate yet. So without fanfare, here are the standard bits you're looking for: Issues resolved: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&&fixfor=1 3143&pid=10500&sorter/field=issuekey&sorter/order=DESC Staging repo: http://people.apache.org/builds/maven/3.0-alpha-1/ Distributions: http://people.apache.org/builds/maven/3.0-alpha-1/staging-repo/org/apach e/maven/maven-distribution/3.0-alpha-1/ Vote open for 72 hours. [ ] +1 [ ] +0 [ ] -1 Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven jason at sonatype dot com ---------------------------------------------------------- In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
