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--- On Mon, 1/24/11, Antoine Levy-Lambert <anto...@gmx.de> wrote: > From: Antoine Levy-Lambert <anto...@gmx.de> > Subject: [VOTE][PROPOSAL] EasyAnt incubator > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Date: Monday, January 24, 2011, 5:14 PM > I would like to present for a vote > the following proposal to be sponsored by > the Ant PMC for a new "EasyAnt" podling. > > The proposal is available on the wiki at and included > below: > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/EasyAntProposal > > [] +1 to accept EasyAnt into the Incubator > [] 0 don't care > [] -1 object and reason why. > > Thanks, > Antoine Levy-Lambert > > --- Proposal text from the wiki --- > > > EasyAnt Proposal > > The following presents the proposal for creating a new > EasyAnt project within the Apache Software Foundation. > > = Abstract = > > Easyant is a build system based on Apache Ant and Apache > Ivy. > > = Proposal = > > EasyAnt goals are : > > * to leverage popularity and flexibility of Ant. > * to integrate Apache Ivy, such that the build system > combines a ready-to-use dependency manager. > * to simplify standard build types, such as building web > applications, JARs etc, by providing ready to use builds. > * to provide conventions and guidelines. > * to make plugging-in of fresh functionalities easy as > writing simple Ant scripts as Easyant plugins. > > To still remain adaptable, > > * Though Easyant comes with a lot of conventions, we never > lock you in. > * Easyant allows you to easily extend existing modules or > create and use your own modules. > * Easyant makes migration from Ant very simple. Your legacy > Ant scripts could still be leveraged with Easyant. > > = Rationale = > > On the Ivy and Ant mailing list, an often asked question is > "Why Ivy is not shipped with Ant ?". Ant users (and some > opponents) complains also about the bootstrapping of an Ant > based build system: it is mainly about copying an existing > one. EasyAnt is intended to response to both of these > requirements: a prepackaged Ant + Ivy solution with standard > build script ready to be used. > > Also taking inspiration from the success of Apache Maven, > EasyAnt is adopting the "convention over configuration" > principle. Then it could be easy to build standard project > at least for all commons steps (no more need to reinvent the > wheel between each projects). The "common" part should be > easy enough to tune parameters without having deep ant > knowledge (example changing the default directory of > sources, force compilation to be java 1.4 compatible, > etc...). > > Last but not least, EasyAnt is intended to provide a plugin > based architecture to make it easy to contribute on a > specific step of the build. Build plugins are pieces of > functionality that can be plugged into or removed from a > project. Plugins could actually perform a piece of your > regular build, e.g. compile java classes during build of a > complete war. Or, do a utility action, e.g. deploy your > built web application onto a packaged Jetty server! > > = Current Status = > > == Meritocracy == > > Some of the core developers are already committers and > members of the Apache Ant PMC, so they understand what it > means to have a process based on meritocracy. > > == Community == > > EasyAnt have a really small community (around 100 downloads > per release). It is not a problem as the team is currently > making restructuring changes. The team plans to make more > promotion after those changes and strongly believe that > community is the priority as the tool is designed to be easy > to use. > > == Core Developers == > > Xavier Hanin and Nicolas Lalev�¡�ée are members of > the PMC of Apache Ant. > Jerome Benois is an Acceleo committer, he was a committer > in Eclipse MDT Papyrus for two years and he's an active > contributor in Eclipse Modeling and Model Driven community. > He's a committer on Bushel project now contribute to the Ivy > code base. He leads the EasyAnt for Eclipse plugin > development. > Jason Trump is leading Beet project on sourceforge > (http://beet.sourceforge.net/). > Jean-Louis Boudart is Hudson committer. > > == Alignment == > > EasyAnt is based on Apache Ant and Ivy. Being part of > Apache could help for a closer collaboration between > projects. > The team plans to reinject as much as possible stuff into > Ant or Ivy like they've done in the past on : > * extensionPoint : kind of IoC for targets (Ant) > * import/include mechanism (Ant) > * module inheritance (Ivy) > > = Known risks = > > == Orphaned products == > > Jean-Louis Boudart is the main developer of EasyAnt. Other > developers got interested in this project and are now > touching to every aspect of EasyAnt. Thus the risk of being > orphaned is quite limited. > > == Inexperience with Open Source == > > Many of the committers have experience working on open > source projects. Two of them have experience as committers > on other Apache projects. > > == Homogenous Developers == > > The existing committers are spread over a number of > countries and employers. > > == Reliance on Salaried Developers == > > None of the developers rely on EasyAnt for consulting > work. > > == Relationships with Other Apache Products == > > As already stated above, EasyAnt is intended to have a > quite good integration with both Apache Ant and Apache Ivy. > > == A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand == > > As we're already based on many Apache project (Ant + Ivy), > it seems natural for us that Apache Software Foundation > could be a good host for this. > > = Documentation = > > Further reading on EasyAnt can be found at: http://www.easyant.org/doc/ > > Mailing list is located at http://groups.google.com/group/easyant > > = Initial Source = > > The initial code base can be found at: http://svn.easyant.org/ > > = Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan = > > Every developer is willing to sign the proper papers to > make EasyAnt enter the ASF. > > = External Dependencies = > > Easyant requires at compile/runtime : > > * apache ant > * apache ivy > * ant contrib > > = Required Resources = > > == Mailing lists == > > * easyant-private (with moderated subscriptions) > * easyant-dev > > == Subversion Directory == > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/easyant > > == Issue Tracking == > > JIRA EasyAnt (EASYANT) > > = Initial Committers = > > * Xavier Hanin > * J�ér�ôme Benois > * Jason Trump > * Siddhartha Purkayastha > * Nicolas Lalev�ée > * Jean-Louis Boudart > > = Sponsors = > > == Champions == > > * Antoine L�évy-Lambert > > == Nominated Mentors == > > * Antoine L�évy-Lambert > * Stefan Bodewig > > == Sponsoring Entity == > > * Apache Ant > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
