Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-19 Thread Stephen Connolly
I got distracted by some sparkly thing... I will reboot shortly... Still waiting for a good entry to use as a starting hook though On Wednesday, 20 February 2013, Barrie Treloar wrote: > This has been quite for about 10 days. > > Is there any consensus on what the update should look like? > > ---

Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-19 Thread Barrie Treloar
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Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Barrie Treloar
On 11 February 2013 23:21, Stephen Connolly wrote: > "Apache Maven is *the* opinionated software build tool" A lot of the replies still seem to wordy and technical. Not sure, mine's any better but... Apache Maven builds your Java project "The Maven Way". "The Maven Way" combines industry best p

Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Chris Graham
+1 If you want to trim it a bit, I'd remove the reference to the repo mgr. Good practice, yes. Needed, no. -Chris Sent from my iPhone On 12/02/2013, at 4:26 PM, "Manfred Moser" wrote: >> This is similar to what I've used to describe it to people in the past: >> >> Apache Maven is a build ma

RE: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Manfred Moser
> This is similar to what I've used to describe it to people in the past: > > Apache Maven is a build management and automation system that defines a > standard build lifecycle as well a plug-in mechanism to perform activities > using project configuration during specific lifecycle phases of the bu

RE: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Timothy Reilly
This is similar to what I've used to describe it to people in the past: Apache Maven is a build management and automation system that defines a standard build lifecycle as well a plug-in mechanism to perform activities using project configuration during specific lifecycle phases of the build pr

Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Anders Hammar
"Apache Maven is not Ant. And not even remotely related." :-) On the more serious side: Based on a recent discussion on the mailing list we should probably get some wording in there that it has infrastructure dependencies, i.e. requires a repository (manager): "Apache Maven is *the* opinionated

Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Olivier Lamy
Hi, Good idea about improving documentation ! Thanks to take care of that ! 2013/2/11 Stephen Connolly : > I am working on some ideas for rejigging the front page. > > Since I don't have time for code, but I can work on content (even if > somewhat slowly at times), I have decided to focus my Mave

Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Laird Nelson
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > So here is my call for ideas... > > in 15 words or less > > Apache Maven is ... My two cents: make it really, really straightforward and germane to someone who might not even begin to have any clue what