Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Barrie Treloar
On 11 February 2013 23:21, Stephen Connolly wrote: > "Apache Maven is *the* opinionated software build tool" A lot of the replies still seem to wordy and technical. Not sure, mine's any better but... Apache Maven builds your Java project "The Maven Way". "The Maven Way" combines industry best p

Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Chris Graham
+1 If you want to trim it a bit, I'd remove the reference to the repo mgr. Good practice, yes. Needed, no. -Chris Sent from my iPhone On 12/02/2013, at 4:26 PM, "Manfred Moser" wrote: >> This is similar to what I've used to describe it to people in the past: >> >> Apache Maven is a build ma

RE: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Manfred Moser
> This is similar to what I've used to describe it to people in the past: > > Apache Maven is a build management and automation system that defines a > standard build lifecycle as well a plug-in mechanism to perform activities > using project configuration during specific lifecycle phases of the bu

RE: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Timothy Reilly
This is similar to what I've used to describe it to people in the past: Apache Maven is a build management and automation system that defines a standard build lifecycle as well a plug-in mechanism to perform activities using project configuration during specific lifecycle phases of the build pr

Re: Fast or exact ?

2013-02-11 Thread Anders Hammar
"It's just a small change. No need to test that..." Famous last words! :-) /Anders On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > You miss my point. Give an example of how to configure such a release > profile. Plus how would recompression being o

Re: Fast or exact ?

2013-02-11 Thread Stephen Connolly
You miss my point. Give an example of how to configure such a release profile. Plus how would recompression being on break things? Is the jar spec that weak? On Monday, 11 February 2013, Anders Hammar wrote: > > Given that people don't do applets any more, and most app servers explode > > the .wa

Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Anders Hammar
"Apache Maven is not Ant. And not even remotely related." :-) On the more serious side: Based on a recent discussion on the mailing list we should probably get some wording in there that it has infrastructure dependencies, i.e. requires a repository (manager): "Apache Maven is *the* opinionated

Re: Fast or exact ?

2013-02-11 Thread Anders Hammar
> Given that people don't do applets any more, and most app servers explode > the .wars anyway, speed should be king. I'd give an example of turning it > on for the release profile though on the project site > I don't think having a different setting for releases than for the snapshots is a good i

Re: [VOTE] Maven Pmd Plugin 3.0 (take 2)

2013-02-11 Thread Olivier Lamy
+1 2013/2/7 Olivier Lamy : > Hi, > I'd like to release Maven Pmd Plugin 3.0. > Note this version is based on PMD 5.0.2 (reason for the version bump). > We fixed 18 issues: > https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+MPMD+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%223.0%22+AND+s

Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Olivier Lamy
Hi, Good idea about improving documentation ! Thanks to take care of that ! 2013/2/11 Stephen Connolly : > I am working on some ideas for rejigging the front page. > > Since I don't have time for code, but I can work on content (even if > somewhat slowly at times), I have decided to focus my Mave

Re: Fast or exact ?

2013-02-11 Thread Olivier Lamy
+1 for fast per default 2013/2/11 Kristian Rosenvold : > The "fast" mode is twice as fast at "slow", which I see quite a few people > enjoy (these plugins can be quite slow). Initially I measured the increase > in size to be 3-5%, which was why I just flipped default to "fast". It > turned out the

Re: Rejig the front page

2013-02-11 Thread Laird Nelson
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > So here is my call for ideas... > > in 15 words or less > > Apache Maven is ... My two cents: make it really, really straightforward and germane to someone who might not even begin to have any clue what

Re: Fast or exact ?

2013-02-11 Thread Stephen Connolly
Given that people don't do applets any more, and most app servers explode the .wars anyway, speed should be king. I'd give an example of turning it on for the release profile though on the project site On Monday, 11 February 2013, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote: > I think today we care more about time

maven-plugins pull request: [MCOMPILER-178] add List parameter compilerArgs

2013-02-11 Thread jsievers
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Re: Fast or exact ?

2013-02-11 Thread Romain Manni-Bucau
I think today we care more about time than size (it shouldn't be gigs ;) wdyt? *Romain Manni-Bucau* *Twitter: @rmannibucau * *Blog: **http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/* *LinkedIn: **http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau* *Github:

Re: Fast or exact ?

2013-02-11 Thread Kristian Rosenvold
The "fast" mode is twice as fast at "slow", which I see quite a few people enjoy (these plugins can be quite slow). Initially I measured the increase in size to be 3-5%, which was why I just flipped default to "fast". It turned out the projects I measured were rather best-case, and a little more ex