"Niall Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 10/19/07, Paul Shemansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Yoav, >> >> > On 10/19/07, Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > > On 10/19/07, Paul Shemansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > I'm going to keep waiting for more a few more +1s in the >> > > "as-an-alternate" category before doing any real work on it. >> >> > Speaking only for myself, I don't see how waiting helps anything. I'm >> > +0 to you (or anyone else) doing the work and showing us a working >> > Maven build. I'm -0 to committing to a build system idea before I see >> > its implementation. It's just like most other issues or enhancement >> > requests: I'm always open to new ideas but I want to see the proof in >> > the pudding, so to speak. >> >> If I commit to working on it, and try to show some sort of >> proof-in-the-pudding, the issue returns to the problem I mentioned >> before which is hosting it. I had originally mentioned the idea of >> opening a branch for it. However, I don't have commit access to the >> ASF repository, yet, and I felt too new to be asking for it. Since I >> have made everyone aware that I would do the work, and the >> overwhelming consensus seems to be "integrate-instead-of-migrate", I'm >> ready to start prototyping in my spare time. Would you grant me >> access to commit the finished prototype if turns out to be good >> pudding? > > Given that the reaction's been pretty negative from those that have > commit access[1] I wouldn't hold out much hope on this. > > [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/whoweare.html >
You have Costin, Yoav, and myself (and probably others, I'm too lazy to check the thread :) all on record as +1 for adding M2 as an alt build. Go for it. Personally I don't like maven, so will not personally support the pom. But that isn't a reason that other people can't support it. > Niall > >> > And that's coming from someone who used Maven for his day job the past >> > couple of years, so is not a Maven opponent. >> >> Since you use it regularly, how do you personally feel about it? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
