Hi, The Apache Maven project consist of about 100 (sub)projects. Due to the small number of volunteers and the huge amount of code to maintain we're missing enough space to make real progress on all these projects, including our ambitious ideas for the next major version(s) of Maven itself. To be able to gain more focus we need to criticize the current subprojects and decide if it is worth maintaining.
The goal of the Apache Maven Ant Plugin it to generate Ant build files based on a pom.xml and was released for the last time in December 2014. Due to the different ways that Ant and Maven work I don't think it makes sense anymore to maintain a plugin to transform Maven files to Ant. See https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/ [https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/] To be clear, this is NOT the plugin you can use to run Ant within Maven; that's the maven-antrun-plugin. I therefore propose that we retire the maven-ant-plugin. I don't think it makes sense to do a final release. Instead we should update the documentation and freeze the codebase. The process for retiring a plugin is described here: https://maven.apache.org/developers/retirement-plan-plugins.html The vote is open for 72 hours. [ ] +1 Yes, it's about time [ ] -1 No, because...
