Hi,
My take on it is same as before: it's a nice tool, has some cool
features.  But it's only worth pursuing if the benefits outweigh the
costs, namely the maintenance effort to keep an up to date pom.xml (or
project.xml, which may be the more standard name IIRC, but it doesn't
matter much).

I don't think it can replace Ant is the primary build mechanism for
log4j, because so many more people use Ant when compared to Maven.  I
also think, as you pointed out, that logging-site should be tagged
with every release: be it a CVS or SVN tag, that's a separate to-do
item not related to the Ant or Maven discussion.  But for
documentation, sure, maybe it's nice: FWIW, I like Forrest at least as
much as Maven.

One good thing to ask ourselves is: is this really the itch to
scratch?  Have users been complaining about the current documentation?
 Or is our time better spent on getting log4j 1.3 backwards-compatible
and out-the-door already?

Yoav

On 12/16/05, Curt Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Explored a little more and committed some additional enhancements.  A
> sample of the generated documentation from Maven can be viewed at
> http://people.apache.org/~carnold/log4j_mvn/maven-reports.html.
> There are many known issues: several of the links point to non-
> existent documents, the checkstyle report throws an exception so it
> is suppressed and while the Javadocs are generated, the apidocs/
> index.html page is empty (apidocs/overview-summary.html can be used
> to see the generated Javadocs).  However, it looks pretty good for
> the amount of time put into it.   Will post a message on maven-users
> to see if I can get any help in extending it.
>
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Yoav Shapira
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MIT Sloan School of Management
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