I would like to call for a vote to define the release plan for version 1.3 of Ant.
Let me start by acknowledging that the voting rules for Jakarta are currently being refined, as a result of the PMC meeting. I have not yet seen the minutes of the meeting so I don't know the extent of those discussions. If anyone wants to wait for the voting procedure work to be complete, or for the PMC minutes to be available, I think a -1 to that effect will be sufficient to postpone the vote on this release plan. With that caveat, I propose a period of 2 weeks from now during which additional features can be added to Ant 1.3. During this time I would also like to see the majority of open bugs in BugRat addressed. If you want to jump in and help with that, you can access the current reports here http://znutar.cortexity.com/BugRatViewer/ShowProjectAllReports and http://znutar.cortexity.com/BugRatViewer/ShowProjectAllBugs The timeline* of the release would be: 5th February: I will build a release candidate: 1.3rc1. I propose two weeks of testing, during which minor bug fixes could be applied. There may be additional release candidates built in this period. There will be a CVS freeze (voluntary) for this time. 19th February: I will call for a formal vote to accept the latest release candidate code as the Ant 1.3 codebase. 21st February Presuming it goes ahead, I will tag and build Ant 1.3. The optional.jar file will be put together over the following week. The CVS tree will once again be available for commits. As has been previous practice, I will then change the version number in CVS to Ant 1.4alpha. This does not imply that there will be an Ant 1.4 release or what such a release may contain. That decision would be the subject of a future vote. I do not propose to include the Antidote GUI in this release. I volunteer to be the release manager for this release. Henri, I have copied you here to give you a heads-up for building the necessary RPMs. Have you thought of an ant task for that ? :-) I will start the vote with my +1 to all aspects. Conor (*) The dates are based on my timezone. For many of you, therefore, these events would occur a day earlier.
