On 3/8/06, Brad O'Hearne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If requesting documentation commensurate with current maven feature, in > tandem with compliments for the maven code itself, is considered "an > attack on our work" then I give up.
That wasn't my intent with that point, sorry. > I think the real point, as evidenced > by the typical "we know, we know" and "if you want doc, write it > yourself" responses both on the mailing list and IRC, is that raising > the issue of documentation is a nuisance. I don't think so at all, I just felt that we'd probably well and truly covered the topic. We ended up with a few helpful points in the end, it just seemed to difficult to boil the discussion down. > I don't generally view things > that way -- its all opportunity, and the more voices on a particular > issue, it possibly lends more weight to the need, which I would think > would be a valuable source of direction to developers. But others I > suppose will choose to view it just as an isolated complaint, and > something they don't want to hear. Difference in people, I guess. I don't think anyone suggests this is an isolated complaint. > I've contributed a new plugin, and mods to two existing plugins, and > also posted some time ago about how I could go about documenting maven > myself from beginning to end on this mailing list. Unless I missed a > helpful response, the responses I received didn't give me any direction > for doing this other than just reading code and existing doc. My > definition of "extremely welcomed" goes a little beyond this. Well, that's an attitude we'll need to fix then. I'll look back for your post and issues as I and others may have missed or forgotten it or been otherwise distracted at the time. > I'm really out of words on this, and at any rate, you've made clear you > feel this discussion is a waste of time, so I'll oblige, and drop it. I just said I was moving it to the dev list to try and start practical discussions. I don't think anything is getting dropped. > Back to using maven. I really do appreciate that you've shared your > views on this, despite your disagreement with mine. Thanks, ditto. - Brett --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
