Thanks for the praise! On 2025/09/11 16:50:15 Tamás Cservenák wrote: > Greg, > > My 5 cents: > > I do agree with you, but we lack -- as usual -- manpower. > The Doxia stack (doxia, site plugin, etc) was lagging a LOT behind > current development, and Michael did a great job to update it (but it > took him 4 years!), but many plugins are still on the 1.x stack. > > Personally I find site feature overblown, overcomplicated and just too > fragile. And ultimately, way too hard to keep it up to date. > However, I do agree that Maven is a great source of metadata (usable > on websites), and reports, but my personal pet peeve is that Maven > *should not render*. IMHO, it should produce various data sources and > report sources in some intermediate format (like asciidoc or markdown > or whatever) and let users render it in any way they want (for example > by calling hugo with exec plugin). Basically Maven should be used as a > source of "reports" extracted/generated from codebase, and that mixed > with "site content" should produce the final site. I disagree with the > "site rendering is tied to release" principle either (or the opposite: > always publish a snapshot site, while users are using things for > Central that are releases). > > Maven Site stack will never be able to be on par with current SSGs. > > That said, to not steal this thread, Greg, you could start another > thread about this topic. > > Thanks > T > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM Greg Chabala <greg.chab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Non-binding -1 > > > > I don't know what the threshold for 'widely used' should be for an optional > > reporting plugin. I see 200+ results in the search provided. > > > > I'm a user of it. In general, I think Maven site generation is > > underappreciated, underutilized, and not well advertised as a feature, > > which makes the optional add-ons to site generation like link checking even > > less popular. > > > > I'd prefer to see more improvements to the default site and the site > > lifecycle in the hope of getting more folks using it. > > > > Greg Chabala > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
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