I went over the "Moving to Maven (HBASE-2099)" thread and I see only +1s (a -1 was subsequently withdrawn). Other objections I heard were complaints that dev couldn't build without being net connected -- specifically on LA<->Singapore<->Taiwan flights -- with current ivy-based build but mavenites claim this will be possible in maven (default is to get SNAPSHOTS once a day and you can disable the fetch with -o I believe).
So, I'm going to commit hbase-2099 to hbase TRUNK unless I hear objection in next day or so. Thanks all, St.Ack