little maven history

[Eric Dobbs <do...@apache.org>]

Hi All.

Saw some complaints about a general purpose tool like
Maven coming from a sub-project of Turbine and thought
I'd offer a little history.

It all started with the efforts to decouple Torque and
Fulcrum.  In the process of that decoupling turbine
split into five sub-projects:  turbine-2, turbine-3,
stratum, fulcrum, and torque (and a bonus sub-project
of the tdk).  Maven was born out of a need to simplify
the maintenance of all those builds.  In that context
it makes sense that Maven should be a sub-project of
Turbine.

Of course there's been an awareness that Maven would be
useful beyond Turbine.  But Turbine is proving to be a
good incubator for maturing Maven and building a
developer community to support it.

I think it's a little premature to be converting
everything to Maven.  But Maven is moving damn quickly.
Maybe it's good Jon got the flame war,  er... marketing
campaign, started early.  8^)

-Eric

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