On Jun 19, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Bruce Atherton wrote: > Ant supplies several tasks that require commercial software in order to run. > This is a problem because the Ant developers do not typically have access to > the commercial products required to test, maintain, and enhance the tasks. It > also means that users downloading the binary edition of Ant end up with a lot > of tasks that they cannot use. > > In order to rectify this situation, I'm calling a vote on how to deal with > these unsupportable tasks. The vote is composed of two parts: should we drop > support for each of these tasks from the Ant release, and should we establish > the commercial tasks that have been dropped as Antlibs in the sandbox. > > 1. Should the following commercial tasks be dropped from being distributed > with the Ant release? > > [ ] Continuous/Synergy tasks: CCMCheckin, CCMCheckout, CCMCheckinTask, > CCMReconfigure, CCMCreateTask > [ ] Clearcase tasks: CCCheckin, CCCheckout, CCUnCheckout, CCUpdate, > CCMklbtype, CCMklabel, CCRmtype, CCLock, CCUnlock, CCMkbl, CCMkattr, CCMkdir, > CCMkelem > [ ] Perforce Tasks: P4Sync, P4Change, P4Edit, P4Submit, P4Have, P4Label, > P4Labelsync, P4Counter, P4Reopen, P4Revert, P4Add, P4Delete, P4Integrate, > P4Resolve, P4Fstat > [ ] PVCS > [ ] ServerDeploy, but only for the jonas and weblogic nested elements, > generic can stay where it is. > [ ] Source Offsite: sosget, soslabel, soscheckin, soscheckout > [ ] Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (already an Antlib) >
+1 to all > 2. Should the commercial tasks that are voted for dropping from Ant core > above be established in their own Antlibs in the sandbox? > > [ ] +1 = Yes, establish one new Antlib in the sandbox for each task dropped > -1 = No, just drop the commercial tasks altogether from Ant > +0 -Matt > Note that question 1 is a vote for code modification, so any -1 vote on > question 1 is considered a veto. Question 2 is just for guidance from the > community about whether there is a desire to keep the commercial tasks around > in Antlibs. Since any committer can create a sandbox Antlib at any time, the > vote is non-binding and any -1 vote just indicates that the voter does not > think that this is a good idea rather than being a veto. > > Three or more +1 votes with no -1 votes are required for dropping any of the > commercial tasks. The vote will end in one week. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
