[jboss-dev] Why Maven sucks (part 1)

[Ovidiu Feodorov]

David M. Lloyd wrote:
> On 04/22/2008 12:26 AM, Ovidiu Feodorov wrote:
>> David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm willing try this out on Remoting 3 (which is the very definition 
>>> of a small peripheral project).  My only requirements are:
>>>
>>> 1) the build has to work exactly as it does now (it's purely ant at 
>>> the moment, and works just fine, though some of the deps are 
>>> downloaded from the Maven part of the repository)
>>
>> That's doable. I need to add support for a Maven repository, which I 
>> wanted to do anyway, but as a short term solution, we can use this 
>> kind of repository: http://repository.novaordis.org/ Something like 
>> this can be set up in ten minutes, and it can be a placeholder until 
>> Maven repository support is ready.
>>
>>> 2) none of my time required :)  Though I'm willing to answer 
>>> questions about the build
>>>
>>> http://www.jboss.org/jbossremoting/
>> Well, that's fine in what I am concerned. I don't expect much work to 
>> go into this. You need to clear this with your managers, though, 
>> remember that I am not JBoss anymore ...
>
> Nah.  Just send me a patch and a list of files to upload ;-)  And of 
> course you have to assign the copyright and so forth - I assume 
> there's still a contributor agreement with your name on it lying about 
> somewhere.

OK, but before proceeding, could please look up the contributor 
assignment and send it to me? I would like to review what exactly is in 
there.

Thanks
Ovidiu