> >Will the book provide documentation in addition to > (hopefully) the 1.0 > >final documentation that will get updated at > maven.apache.org? Or will > >the book contain a substantial amount of documentation that > cannot be > >found on the web? > > > >I myself would like to see a complete Maven documentation effort be > >released on the maven website, much like Ant's documentation > is all on > >the website. I'm not sure spending between $30 and $40 for the Maven > >book for documentation would be something that the masses want. > > > > > Are you volunteering to write that documetation ? If not your aren't > speaking for the masses, just yourself. > I feel very luck that publishing companies are willing to > write books on > Maven. > $30-$40 dollars is a very very small price to pay for a good > book ! And the software is thrown in for free. !!!
Well, I was, prima facie, just speaking for myself. At a very high level I'm not sure how Maven's value proposition is any different from other OSS that provide tools for software development. Ant, XDoclet, Hibernate are some examples of advanced complicated libraries that have their documentation online. And it's good documentation too (XDoclet uses Maven! :). Unless it's a mechanism for making money, which in-of-itself is not a bad thing at all. I'm all for folks making as much money as they can. Why does Maven's product necessitate documentation in book form when other advanced tools and API's can be satisfactorily summed up online? I have actually tackled some of the Maven documentation, I started writing an outline of what I think would be good information. The problem is I'm developing it from looking at the Maven source, and sometimes I can't explain why a particular idiom was used. The source itself is not well documented and rationales for design patterns (which are not usually put in the source) are mostly in people's head. > >Complete documentation, with the general specificity that > Ant provides, > >would be sufficient for me, and I probably speak for the majority of > >Maven users. > > > >Would the book target the Maven 1.0 release? Or the Maven > 2.0 release? > >(or the Maven-New 1.0 release?) > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
