[Gllug] [OT] Maven alikes

[Richard]

This is not strictly Linux related, but an issue for a lot of us.

I'm poking about Maven and its associated plugins to almost everything 
source code, or Java, related. Can I canvas opinion about what people 
think of Maven, and other tools that help to automate software project 
management. Is there anything else out there that seeks to tie together 
all the different tools around source code, (documentation, testing, 
build, quality metrics, etc.)? One of my gripes is that Maven becomes 
your build tool, which makes me uncomfortable.

In the specific case I'm thinking of, there's a very large government 
department, with awful development practices. I'm hoping to bring them 
out of the 1950s, and allow them to build better (big) projects. Believe 
it or not, I actually would like to see taxes spent more effectively... 
This is a work related enquiry for me, but I expect/hope that it may be 
of general interest to others here.

Be sure to tell me off-list if you don't want this here, and I'll try to 
kill the thread as quickly and quietly as possible.

Thanks people,

Richard
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