Suggestion: split the user list

2011-04-04 Thread Benson Margulies
Oh Maven PMC, Have you ever considered splitting the user list into one for people who type 'mvn' and another for people developing plugins? The audiences are fairly distinct, and I think that it would improve the Signal to Noise ratio, and facilitate more communications, if they were split.

Re: Suggestion: split the user list

2011-04-04 Thread Barrie Treloar
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Oh Maven PMC, Have you ever considered splitting the user list into one for people who type 'mvn' and another for people developing plugins? The audiences are fairly distinct, and I think that it would improve the

Re: Suggestion: split the user list

2011-04-04 Thread Wendy Smoak
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Oh Maven PMC, Have you ever considered splitting the user list into one for people who type 'mvn' and another for people developing plugins? The audiences are fairly distinct, and I think that it would improve the

Re: Suggestion: split the user list

2011-04-04 Thread Benson Margulies
My perception is that there's still a lot of room for improvement in the documentation of the various interfaces that a mojo developer needs to talk to. So a would-be plugin developer is prone to have questions. On a day when the user list is swamped with some the latest flame-fest about the

Re: Suggestion: split the user list

2011-04-04 Thread Brett Porter
Writing plugins is for most a function of using Maven. I think the users@ list is the right place to ask. If you're not getting answers, that's a different problem :) A split would only make sense if there were a number of people talking about plugin development already that was hindering less