Re: communicating m2 was: [vote] bring m2-dev back to dev@maven.apache.org

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

Eric Pugh wrote:

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> I think we need to address somewhere what M2 is.  I talk to new people
> all the time, and when they hear Maven2, they get nervous..   They
> start wondering why learn M1 if M2 is coming down the pike..  And, for
> early adopters, they need to know that M2 isn't baked the way M1 is,
> and that things may break or take digging in.

I agree. It's next on my list - I'll be starting tomorrow.
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-222

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> M2 is more then just a complete rewrite of M1, and that M2 won't
> replace M1 in one fell swoop is something that we need to
> communicate.  Rather, the backporting of components out of M2 like
> wagon or scm, are things that M1 users can really benefit from (I know
> I am excited about them!), and having discussion about them on
> dev@maven.apache.org will really help.

That's what I Was intending, yes.

>
> I hope it doesn't devolve to where every subject line starts with [M1]
> or [M2]..

Absolutely not.

Thanks,
Brett

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> Eric
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