On Nov 2, 2010, at 2:31 AM, Brian Fox wrote: > 2010/11/1 Arnaud Héritier <aherit...@gmail.com>: >> I agree. >> Perhaps for some of them we could discuss to move them to mojo.codehaus.org >> to let the community take the lead on them if we find some volunteers (I'm >> thinking about the eclipse plugin for example). > > It probably needs to be said that if people want to step up and > maintain them, they should be considered for commit access.
We wouldn't be having this discussion if that were the case, no? I'm not sure what you're saying. Leave them here in the hopes someone eventually comes along? > Just > because the current committer base doesn't want to maintain them > doesn't mean the plugins have to leave, perhaps we should try to > attract people to maintain them. > Obviously this doesn't apply for all > plugins like stage that was a hack and has a replacement, but if we > have so many dead plugins it's possibly a symptom of not growing the > committer base. > We don't support our own plugins but we're going to do outreach now? We have people contributing anymore because we hardly process any of the patches that are submitted. We don't process the patches because it's a complete pain in the ass compared to the methods available. If we put the plugins in a git repo, publicize that I think that's how we would get more contributors because it's much easier to clone, make an improvement and then submit a pull request. What you suggest has never happened in terms of outreach or people stepping up and I agree with you it's symptomatic of something. But this situation is not magically going to change. The barrier to collaboration is high here. I think it's easier to place the code in an environment where there are little to no barriers to collaborating and let the community do what the community is willing to do. Not let the code rot here and hope for the best. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------- A man enjoys his work when he understands the whole and when he is responsible for the quality of the whole -- Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language
