Ugh. I for one am sick of the discussions of whether to use maven or ivy, etc. in a Java project. Just as old is the conversation about whether the project should be an Apache project. The ant (later: ant+ivy) vs. maven thing and whether a (major) project should go into Apache has been ongoing since the early 2000s in one project or another.
It is interesting in relation to Voldemort, but egads... this is one of the reasons I'm glad to sneak away into Ruby, etc. a good bit.
This is a really interesting discussion that only touches on ivy, maven etc. at the very end. There are some good ideas for ways to keep a project relevant and increasing adoption. Notably the call for more non-LinkedIn committers that is brought up in the original post and addressed somewhere in the middle.
It is interesting in relation to Voldemort, but egads... this is one of the reasons I'm glad to sneak away into Ruby, etc. a good bit.