Quick Up­date: Maven

Our maven in­te­gra­tion has not been the most flu­ent thing we ever did, but we now seem to have gained some trac­tion in the right di­rec­tion (thanks to com­mu­ni­ty hints, some sol­id team­work and hours of ad­di­tion­al brain-storm­ing). Here is a quick up­date on where we are:

• Upload to maven cen­tral is work­ing but not yet op­ti­mal (we're work­ing on that).
• Mean­while, we're also re-eval­u­at­ing our en­tire build en­vi­ron­ment to op­ti­mize for maven builds (i.e., switch­ing from ant to maven en­tire­ly).
• We're also re­struc­tur­ing our SVN repos­i­to­ry so it has op­ti­mal sup­port for our busi­ness mod­el.

As you can see, we're not afraid to throw away any­thing in our quest to im­prove things Con­trary to what I ex­pect­ed, go­ing from ant to maven seems to sim­pli­fy our build af­ter all: maven seems to be ma­tur­ing, and new team mem­bers tend to know maven bet­ter than ant.

All these changes have quite some im­pact on the ar­chi­tec­ture of our build ecosys­tem, so we can't just do them overnight. How­ev­er, we would like to have them ready be­fore we bring out the next ma­jor new re­lease(s).

Thank you for your pa­tience!