[Maven-plugins-developer] Proposal for revamped distributions!

[David E. P. <ep...@up...>]

Hi all,

After being uninvolved in OSS stuff for the past couple months, things 
in my personal life have finally calmed down to the point where I can 
start re involving myself in the various projects that I care about!

Coming back to Maven-Plugins.sf.net with a fresh eye, I notice a certain 
lack of "polish" to the site.  As I read through various emails that I 
had accumulated in my absence, I noticed a fairly common theme of "I 
can't find X".

Right now there seem to be multiple ways of downloading a plugin, 
including going to Ibiblio, using the SF download pages, 
http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/repository/maven-plugins/, 
http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven/maven-plugins/

While Brett put in a symbolic link between the 
http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven and 
http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/repository directories which has 
helped tremendously, having the different locations is still confusing.

With the committers buy in, I'd like to attempt to regenerate all the 
site documentation, add download links to all of the them that point to 
http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/repository/maven-plugins/.   This 
would ensure that all of the plugins actually have a site (macker seems 
to be missing!), and that they all use the updated L&F (webtest has an 
old one).

I'd also like change the download page to point to our repository, not 
the SF one, especially since the "installation" document makes no 
mention of it...

Looking forward to your feedback....

Eric Pugh