I've got a lazy suggestion (I.E. a suggestion which, if implemented, will permit me to be more lazy). I'm interested in messing with the Ant code, in the hopes of eventually becoming a useful contributer. Of course, being a new zealot, I want to manage all my dinking -with- ant. So I want to update my local copy of the source by something like
ant update_source and submit my changes with something like ant submit_cvs which might extract a patch from the latest reference build, and mail it to the Right People. So what about making such targets availiable in the build.xml that is presented with the source dist? It would encourage ant development, and it would provide examples of 1) the syntax to do this additional interesting task. 2) the behavior of a development organization interested in encouraging more help. It might even catch on in other projects. ... On the other hand, it might not be your desire to encourage new developers -that- much. :) - Allen S. Rout
