+1 can be a separate project if anyone wants to pursue it. On Wed, 29 May, 2019, 09:38 Bernd Prager, <be...@prager.ws> wrote:
> +1 > > On 29/5/62 01:54, Robert Scholte wrote: > > 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... > -- > Bernd Prager > > Mobile: +66.91.770.5758 > Skype: bernd.pra...@outlook.com > PGP Public > Key: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBDA6C225628DB3CD > PGP Fingerprint: 0AA3 952C F211 E98A CD18 9E55 BDA6 C225 628D B3CD > > > >
