I was invited by the Apache/Codehaus GWT plugin creator/maintainer, Nicolas De Loof, to join efforts with him and combine our projects.
That project is here: http://mojo.codehaus.org/gwt-maven-plugin/. The new project, the joining of the two, would be under the Mojo/ Codehaus/Apache rules, and not here at Google Code hosting (not nearly as much autonomy). I am inclined to say sure and join the projects, after all they do have the same goals (not Maven "goals" but overall "goals," you known what I mean ;)). Additionally the Maven standard way to include a plugin seems to be at the Codehaus Mojo (I don't know all the rules, but that does seem to be the path into real mavenhood for a plugin). In fact I suggested that we join efforts several months back when I first noticed the Codehaus Mojo plugin (but got no response at that time). I am not in business here to try to be "the" plugin or whatnot, but just to provide a good plugin that we all can use, no matter where it lives (when I created this project, years ago now, it was the only such offering). Even though I am *inclined* to join, I am not sure if it will actually happen. There are several potential issues with the process. First, I am not the only person here at this project, so I can't really just decide for all of us. What do other project contributors here think? Second, I have to be voted in to join the Mojo project through the Apache foundation - not sure how that works (and I can't just add others, one of the reasons I put the project here to begin with, I don't prefer the oligarchy, I prefer just letting anyone that wants to help in). Third, I am not sure how well the projects will mesh - I think GWT-Maven is further along, but I am not really familiar enough with the Mojo plugin to know how well it works, how robust it is, etc (it seems simple at the outset, but as anyone who has worked on things here knows there are many subtleties to actually getting this plugin to work in the wide variety of use cases people throw at it). Even if Nicolos and I do ultimately decide to join, there is no time frame yet, no hurry (no changes to this project are planned, it will still be maintained, etc). I would like to get feedback from the community here before anything happens. So, let me know what you think, please. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gwt-maven" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gwt-maven?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
