On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Rémy Maucherat <r...@apache.org> wrote:
> 2014-09-02 18:41 GMT+02:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > > > I'm leaning towards A myself. > The move to git clears a huge hurdle, and that is managing contributions. The patch system is very difficult, and impossible to maintain. A pull request stays alive and can be maintained through code changes . I believe we can get more contributions by moving to Git. > > > > Oh wow, does this mean I can resurrect my thread on Maven too ? (ideally, > we should also move to it first, then think about how to use it later, > otherwise people will never vote in favor) > Let's skip Maven and move straight to Gradle, it has the benefit of not needing a build system installed on the developers machine, as it gets downloaded by the wrapper checked into the repo. This is yet one less version that is required by the contributor. It's built on top of Ant, and should give us all the flexibility we need. > > :) > > Rémy >
