NetBeansMavenContributors

NetBeans Maven Contributors

NetBeans Maven Contributors is a small community of Maven NetBeans support users that will be involved in defining of Maven support development way. Members of this community have some benefits which help them to influence the future of Maven support in NetBeans IDE.

NetBeans Maven Contributor benefits:

direct reporting issues into the IssueZilla via Exception Reporter
new features and UI specification reviews, evaluation of prototypes
influence on nominating issues that should be integrated into Patch updates
influence on nominating issues that should be fixed before releases
closer cooperation and keeping in touch with development
T-shirts ;-)

Tasks:

Task 1:

The first task consists of two parts. The first one is about introduction of members and the second one is related to the planned integration of maven support to trunk. Since we want to make sure that there are not stoppers for real users we would like to hear your opinion related to quality. Also we encourage you in identification of missing Maven features that you need for your work.

introduce yourself and start working with latest builds from maven-dev branch
discuss difficulties that you have with builds and file issues
finish date: 2008/11/26

Task 1 results - suggested parts for improvement:

Kristian Rink

creating EJB modules
adding web service clients to maven2
having same wizards as ant-based projects
recursively build inter-dependent projects, re-build on demand (+1 from Laurent)
wizard for an empty folder + pom.xml (out of groupId, artifactId, verdsion)

Laurent Foret

prefer maven.spring in Java SE (+1 from Kristian)
the avaibility to add son module directly from a pom module
the possibilty to change the view resources as a package view instead of folder tree view (+1 from Kristian)

Ryan de Laplante

full featured Project Properties like in ant projects; managing libraries like in ant projects in project properties instead of the current way
visual editor for pom.xml
do synchronization the development of new ant-project related features and maven-related

Wouter van Reeven

NetBeans doesn't pick up the Facelets and RichFaces tags in a maven enabled project

Task 2:

Participants were asked to answer mail based 'survey': http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=maven-interest&msgNo=39

closing date date: 2009/01/22

Task 2 results

It is hard to make conclusions from answers of 5 participants, but some results were gathered in File:Maven survey results NetBeansMavenContributors.html maven survey results document.

Participants:

Name	E-mail	netbeans.org
Kristian Rink	kawazu AT zimmer428.net	kawazu428
Anuradha G	theanuradha AT gmail.com	theanuradha
Ryan de Laplante	ryan AT ijws.com	rdelaplante
Laurent Foret	laurent.foret AT gmail.com	lforet
Raphael Pieroni	raphaelpieroni AT gmail.com	larafale
Wouter van Reeven	wouter AT van.reeven.nl	wvreeven
Alvin Thompson	alvin AT thompsonlogic.com	athompson
Dick Wall	dick AT bldc.org	dickwall

Mailing list:

All participants are subscribed to the private mailing list maven-interest AT netbeans DOT org
The web interface for this mailing list is also available.

Other subscribed

There are subscribed also following Sun employees in the maven-interest AT netbeans DOT org mailing list:

Name	Sun.Com	netbeans.org	Role
Milos Kleint	Milos.Kleint	mkleint	NB Maven developer
David Simonek	David.Simonek	dsimonek	NB Maven developer
Jaroslav Pospisil	Jaroslav.Pospisil	jpospisil	NB Maven QE
Jaromir Uhrik	Jaromir.Uhrik	juhrik	NB Maven QE

Useful links:

Attachments

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