> > Brett Porter wrote:
>>
>> >There are no plans at the moment. Since it is incorporating many of
>> >the components from Maven 2 while remaining backwards compatible, the
>> >current effort is going into Maven2.
>> >

That's unfortunate because I'm one of those business users trying to use Maven 
1.x in a development environment.  (I've developed a few plug-ins that I might 
open source in the future as well as contributing a few minor patches to some 
existing plugins.)  Like many users I have a love-hate relationship with Maven. 
 There is tremendous power in Maven, but definitely some frustrations as well.

I think the Maven 2 effort is a Good Thing and the idea of refactoring m1 to 
have some m2 components is a good one as well.  As a developer (especially a 
volunteer one) it is always more fun to be developing the next generation than 
making minor improvements and bug fixes to the current one.

At 9:37 AM +0200 4/30/05, Vincent Massol wrote:
> Maven is not a small and unknown open source
>project and it is being used in lots of major businesses.

My interests in improving Maven 1.1 involve plugins that do XSLT processing of 
project documentation as an integrated part of the build.  Because of this I'm 
very interested in support for Ant 1.6.x and the latest Xerces (and Xalan) as 
well.

Since there seem to be limited human resources available for release 1.1, my 
suggestions for the Maven 1.1 release are:

1) Add a 1.2 release to the roadmap and push as many features as possible into 
that release.

2) Make an alpha release of 1.1 as soon as possible to make it easier for 
testers.

3) Recruit one or more new committers who are interested in maintaining the 1.x 
code.

I'd like to try out a 1.1 alpha and possibly submit bugs/patches for it, but 
would be much more motivated if a (feature reduced) release was more imminent.  
(I see from the changes file that the feature I want Ant 1.6.2 is already in 
there.)

Perhaps this discussion should move to the developers list, but I'd like to 
find out what is involved in doing a 1.1 release and find out if there is 
anything I could do to help.

Regards,

Sean


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