Jeff, I believe this strictly falls within the purview of the Apache Board to explain. In particular Jim, Doug and Shane.
Only the board has the right to reveal the business that has been transacted on private lists. Rest assured that's Sonatype's commitment to Maven users and our pursuit of innovation with respect to Maven-related technologies has not stopped, and will not stop. On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Jeff Jensen wrote: > Is there a forthcoming explanation for a seemingly Maven PMC shakeup? > I find it odd that consistently excellent contributors such as Lukas, > Brian, et al are suddenly not on the Maven PMC. This is concerning as > these are people who have drastically improved and moved Maven > forward. It's very concerning that a heavy committer such as Benjamin > is no longer committing as he has done very useful, fantastic work. > These events are very concerning for the forward progress of Maven. > The strong temptations for competitive products, a la Gradle, do not > allow Maven progress to stop; particularly the best progress to date > of the past year. These events are detrimental. For us uninformed, > what happened, why is it good, what is the plan forward behind this? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------- We all have problems. How we deal with them is a measure of our worth. -- Unknown