To respond to the original question: I think we didn't get into talking 
about Maven because I (and I think) Tor don't have much experience with it. 
Dick does, I know, but I guess he didn't have much to say about it.

I looked at it briefly when figuring out how to evolve our build system at 
Netflix, but rejected it as too disruptive. Our teams are very independent, 
and it would have been a difficult sell to some of them. It also seemed 
that trying to adapt or extend Maven in ways it didn't agree with would be 
an exercise in pain.

I instead opted for a gradual evolution of our ad-hoc Ant-based build files 
into a simple Ant framework with Ivy dependency management and lots of 
Groovy doing the hard work. Almost all projects have tiny build files that 
leverage the common framework. Now we are in a position and in the process 
of migrating to Gradle, which I think takes a better, more scalable 
approach to the build problem than Maven's do-it-my-way-or-suffer approach.

--carl

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