Here's a pimpin' +1 to Maven! ================================================================= Jeffrey D. Brekke Quad/Graphics [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.qg.com
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [vote] New Maven Repository > > > Hi, > > We have been chatting a little bit about Maven in IRC but I would just > like to take the plunge and put the code in a jakarta-turbine-maven > repository. > > The definition of Maven is someone (in this case something) that is an > expert, so in short Maven attempts to be a Java project expert. The > whole basis of Maven is an accurate object model for a > project. So once > this model is worked out completely, and a good deal of it > is, then all > sorts of interesting things can fall out: build tools, metrics, > continuous integration, documentation tools and the list goes > on and on. > > I have talk to several people of the last while and so far > I've got code > donations from Tom Copeland who works on the importscrubber utility > (importscrubber.sourceforge.net) and Juancarlo A�ez who wrote > JRCS and a > diff utility written in Java (http://www.suigeneris.org/software/). I > have also talked with Tim Endres who has changed the license > on his Java > based cvs client library from GPL to LGPL so it can be used > in Maven. I > asked him if he wanted to donate the code to Apache but haven't heard > back from him. > > Other people that I have talked to: Reto Kramer (who I meant at the > AspectJ workshop) who is the author of iDoc, iContract, and iDarwin. I > would like to integrate those tools into Maven but I couldn't find the > source. iDoc and iDarwin are the most interesting to me, you can find > out about them here: http://www.reliable-systems.com. I've also sent a > message to David Peugh the author of Quilt which is a code > coverage tool > that uses the commons-graph package which I nudged Markus Dahm into > donating (the BCEL guy). I would also like to chat with the Cruise > Control guys but haven't done so yet. > > What I would like to do is use all the Turbine projects as a testbed > before making any plans for Maven but the ultimate goal is to replace > the Alexandria project which is defunct. I think if we can > work out all > the issues amongst our little family of projects then we will be well > suited to deal with the rest of the world :-) > > I would like to take Pete up on his offer to document Maven so I would > like to get the code into a repository so the documentation, testing > and collaboration can start. I've been thinking about Maven a lot but > there isn't a whole lot of code yet but I think the approach > of starting > with the object model is sound. > > So I would like to make a jakarta-turbine-maven repository > and stick the > code I have in their today. > > -- > jvz. > > Jason van Zyl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://tambora.zenplex.org > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
