Implicit +1 from me.
-Jaikiran
On 16/06/24 11:40 am, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
Hello everyone,
4 years back in 2020, we initiated an vote to EOL 1.9.x release
versions of Apache Ant. We didn't receive enough votes at that time to
formalize it (which is OK). The last release of Ant 1.9.x release
series was back in 2021 and that was a security fix. The Ant 1.9.x
branch hasn't seen any recent commits in around 2 years. At the same
time the Ant master branch from where we do the 1.10.x release has
been active with bug fixes and relatively smaller enhancements. We
have been releasing Ant 1.10.x regularly too.
Ant 1.9.x allows Java 5 as a runtime whereas Ant 1.10.x requires Java
8 as the minimal runtime. The support for Java 5 has been the sole
reason why the last few times we proposed EOLing 1.9.x, the vote
didn't pass. Having said that, I (one of the release managers of Ant)
haven't had access to Java 5 for several years now. Plus, Ant 1.9.x
doesn't have several of the bug fixes that have gone into Ant 1.10.x
since the past several years. The decision to not backport bug fixes
from 1.10.x into 1.9.x has been intentional, it not easy to maintain
Java 5 compatibility for code changes, plus the development time and
testing time for such backports isn't something that we wanted to
invest in. So effectively, Ant 1.9.x currently lacks features and
fixes when compared to 1.10.x.
Given all this, I would like to officially call for vote to EOL 1.9.x
releases. What that would mean is that there won't be any more Ant
1.9.x releases. Ant 1.9.16, the last release in this 1.9.x series, 3
years back, would officially be the last one. If users do want to use
that version, they can continue to do so by getting it from the usual
Apache Ant download page.
Having EOLed 1.9.x, the Ant team can then solely focus on 1.10.x and
that makes it much more simpler to deal with managing the project
infrastructure as well as code changes. As usual, please cast your
vote by replying to the list.
This vote will close in 72 hours, no earlier than 19 June 2024, 06:30
UTC.
-Jaikiran
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