On 2010-11-01 22:14, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Dennis Lundberg wrote: > >> Hi Jason >> >> Doing some house cleaning among our plugins is a good thing, and I'm in >> favor of retiring those that we feel that we cannot support. >> >> However it is not OK for you to go changing things in Subversion less >> than an hour after your proposal (which wasn't even labeled as one). >> That is not the way we do business here. For starters, people are on >> different time zones. Secondly I feel that retiring a plugin is >> something that should require a vote. Finally moving the stuff around in >> Subversion will break links from the plugin sites and a lot of other >> places. Please restore things in Subversion to how they were. >> > > As almost everything here, nothing is documented. > > I don't believe starting to cleanup requires a vote. It is also not > irreversible. > > I happen to disagree with you. If you want to document something and we vote > on the process that's fine by me.
I've already started writing a proposal... > >> On 2010-11-01 13:37, Jason van Zyl wrote: >>> Following up from a discussion on the user list. I think it's time to be >>> realistic about providing a healthy level of support for plugins here. I >>> think it makes more sense to reduce the foot print of plugins we say we >>> support and do those well as opposed to housing many plugin that just don't >>> get much love. I would ask people to think about the plugins we're housing >>> that we shouldn't. Probably a thread per plugin would be fine for >>> discussion. >>> >>> To that end the plugins I'll send the first thread. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jason >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------- >>> Jason van Zyl >>> Founder, Apache Maven >>> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >>> --------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track >>> of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget >>> the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful >>> groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a >>> clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as >>> signs of decline and decay. >>> >>> -- Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dennis Lundberg >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > --------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > -- Dennis Lundberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
