Things seem to be speeding up again in Maven land, ever since a bunch of the core Maven developers left Mergere to start Sonatype. It seems likely that development at Mergere was focused on value-add propositions like Maestro (based on Maven), while Sonatype focuses on Maven itself, making money off of training and partnerships. Consider the following timeline:
- Maven 2.0.2 (January 2006)
- Maven 2.0.3 (March 2006)
- Maven 2.0.4 (April 2006)
- …zzzz…zz…zzzzzz…
- Maven 2.0.5 (February 2007)
- Maven 2.0.6 (April 2007)
- Maven 2.0.7 (June 2007)
- Maven 2.0.8 (August 2007 [tentative])
As you can see, nothing much happened for about a year there.
In his announcement on The Server Side, Jason mentions the team’s intention to release monthly maintenance releases from here on out. I’ve also noticed increased activity on a couple of the issues I’m watching in Maven’s issue tracker, including features slated for the 2.1 release. I really like Maven 2, and I’m glad to see these signs of resurgent activity.
Congratulations, guys!
