I haven't had time lately to follow a lot of the user list threads, but this one got my attention so I read the whole thing last night. Without having any background on Joachim's previous threads, and judging everything only based on this one, I was kind of surprised...not in a good way. If this was my first foray into the community, I probably wouldn't stay long since it seems quite passive-aggressively hostile.
What I see is Joachim asking a fair question with constraints that I personally find overly restrictive but then I don't know all the back story that produced those constraints. I don't know why our response needed to go beyond a simple statement like "take a look at dependency, assembly, shade or truezip plugins since they have the ability to unpack stuff". Instead it reads like a bunch of preaching and people convincing him that it's the wrong way. If someone is receptive to alternate suggestions fine, but this felt forced and then there was a pig-pile effect of people jumping in. For what it's worth, my very first plugin (the copy-unpack plugin which later became the dependency plugin) started with a very similar use case where I needed to unpack some stuff. I recall having discussions on IRC about this but they weren't evangelistic, rather "that's a new use case, you might need to write or modify a plugin, let us know if you need pointers along the way." That's the community we should have here, not one that looks like an immune system attacking a foreign body. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Baptiste MATHUS <m...@batmat.net> wrote: > +1 on everything, Manfred. > And for the record, in case anyone is wondering if that mailing list if > often like that, please read some other threads... > I never saw that kind of thing here. > Le 19 mars 2013 22:54, "Manfred Moser" <manf...@mosabuam.com> a écrit : > >> > Am 19.03.2013 14:02, schrieb Stephen Connolly: >> >> Wayne, >> >> >> >> Please open an issue ( >> >> https://github.com/stephenc/non-maven-jar-maven-plugin/issues). Pull >> >> requests welcome >> > >> > Just for the record: This confirms that you did that in full consent >> > with both the community and your true inner beliefs. >> > >> > I had assumed such behaviour wouldn't be found acceptable in a community >> > of professionals. >> > I guess one of these two assumptions was wrong. >> > >> > You lost me weeks ago, but you just managed to make me regret every >> > single minute I have ever spent trying to help you and Maven with >> > feedback. >> >> I am speechless to be honest. Stephen invested some of his valuable time >> to provide a fix for your problem and this is all you can come up with as >> a thank you. >> >> Can you please do all of us a favor and unsubscribe from the list. I have >> not seen anything positive come out of your input so far but a lot of >> trolling and accusations. >> >> I for one will stop reading your emails. >> >> manfred >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
