Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:

I can't say what problems there are _now_ since I don't build Cocoon anymore. Hopefully it works now, and I was referring to the past: when the move to Maven was started, the 2.2 build was mostly broken for months, which drained an incredible amount of energy away from the project, either because people got discouraged by this broken build (e.g. me), or because they invested their volunteer time in understanding Maven (e.g. Jorg Heymans) rather than developing Cocoon.

I'm glad it seems to work now, but the amount of energy needed to setup and maintain this build system (remember, it's _just_ a build system) has been astronomical.

It's very nice to see people using 2.2, but I have the impression that most of the 2.2-related questions are related to maven-isms, artifacts, poms, etc. Without wanting to sound harsh, I'm wondering whether this community has learned to live over time with some sort of chronic disease, and is so used to it now that it doesn't even realize that life could be easier without it.

Note that I said "could" and not "would" since ultimately the people-that-do decide what they prefer. And yes I'm a retired old-timer here, but I still care for this community where I learned so much.

Sylvain