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Author: jvanzyl
Date: Wed Oct 25 16:32:57 2006
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MNG-2616 A guide for member of the Maven community. 
Submitted by: Eric Redmond

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+ The Maven Community
+ -----
+ Eric Redmond
+ -----
+ 17 October 2006
+ -----
+
+The Maven Community
+
+  Maven, like any other opensource project, relies heavily on the efforts of the entire user community
+  to be ever vigilent for improvements, logging of defects, communicating use-cases, generating
+  documentation, and being wary of other users in need. This is a quick guide outlining what
+  members of the Maven community may do to make the system work better for everyone.
+
+* Helping With Maven
+
+  There is already a comprehensive {{{guides/development/guide-helping.html}Guide to Helping With Maven}}.
+  That guide focuses upon beginning as a supporter, with information on how to help the coding effort.
+
+** Commit Questions or Answers to the Maven User FAQ
+
+  Documentation is currently a very high priority for the Maven community. Please help out where ever you can,
+  specifically in the work-in-progress {{{http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/FAQs}FAQ Wiki}}.
+
+** Help Log Defects in JIRA
+
+  Just as any other healthy project requires a quick turn-around on defects, and a transparent
+  method of users to have their wishes heard, so too does Maven need your help.
+
+  * {{{http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG}Maven Defects, Improvements and Tasks}}
+
+  * {{{http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPA}Maven Project Administration}}
+
+  []
+
+** Developers
+
+  For Maven developers, commiters, PMC: there is a {{{developers/index.html}Developers Guide}}.
+
+* Being a Good Maven Citizen
+
+  The concept of a public repository built into the core architecture of Maven makes it
+  necessarily community-centric. There are a few simple things that Maven users may
+  do to help keep that community thriving.
+
+** Be a Kind Public Repository User
+
+  The best thing that a user can do is to set up their own remote repository mirror containing the
+  projects needed. There are several tools to make this simpler, such as 
+  {{{http://proximity.abstracthorizon.org/}Proximity}} or {{{http://maven.apache.org/archiva/}Archiva}}. This
+  reduces strain on the Maven central repository, and allows new users to get acquainted with Maven
+  easier and quicker. This is especially important for power-users and corporations. The incentive
+  behind this is, controlling your own servers can give you desired level of security and
+  more control over uptime, resulting in a better experience for your users. With that said, keep the
+  following sentiment in mind:
+
+  <DO NOT wget THE ENTIRE REPOSITORY!>
+
+  Please take only the jars you need. We understand this is may entail more work,
+  but grabbing all 9+ Gigs of binaries really kills our servers.
+  
+** Host a Mirror
+
+  As an extention to the previous statement, if you have access to a large data repository with
+  lots of bandwidth, please consider becomming a mirror for the Maven central repository.
+  
+  As you can imagine, thousands of users downloading can put quite a strain on one server.
+  If you wish to be a mirror, please make an announcement on the {{{mailto:users@maven.apache.org}Maven User List}}.
+
+** Host a Public Repository
+
+  If you have any projects that you wish others to use, host them on your own public repository. That
+  way, your users can simply add your repository to their own project repo list, and viola! Maven
+  can keep you and your users in synch, growing your user-base due simply to its new-found ease of use.
+
+* User Gathering Spots
+
+  These are a few of the watering holes around which Maven users tend to gather.
+
+** Mailing Lists
+
+  The {{{mail-lists.html}Maven Mailing Lists}}. Specifically, the {{{mailto:users@maven.apache.org}Maven User List}}.
+
+** IRC
+
+  Log into the {{{http://irc.codehaus.org/}#maven IRC channel}} at {{{http://codehaus.org/}Codehaus}}.
+

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