Hello:
I think everyone has made some good points. It seems to me that the best way to move
forward is to create a seperate CVS area for Ant 2 efforts. I think there is absolutely
nothing wrong with "a lot of people's favorite small addition to 1.x" and I think that should
continue (subject to previously mentioned guidelines) in the 1.x CVS area.
Meanwhile, work can begin in a SEPARATE area on Ant 2. I'm also not terribly concerned
with what gets imported as the base for the Ant 2 effort, because I am quite sure that it will
get "refactored mercilessly" multiple times before Ant 2 is anywhere close its first public
release. Such refactorings would never be possible in the 1.x code base, and that is (part of)
the point. It seems that the majority of people on the list want to start (ant2) with some
snapshot of the 1.x base code, rather than a proposal. Fine.
My main point is, can we pleeze establish a _separate_ ant2 CVS area so we can get moving
on this? I would even go further-- we should create an ant2-dev mailing list so that ant2 discussions
can be had separately from the folks who want to proceed with their "favorite small addition to 1.x"
Of course, many, or perhaps most developers will want to subscribe to _both_ ant-dev and ant2-dev,
but it will allow developers to be more selective about the email traffic they receive... (hint hint)
Again, I stress that this model has been used quite successfully on many open source projects.
I believe they call it an "internal fork"? Natural and normal for a project in Ant's stage of development...
$0.02,
--Craeg
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I think we were making it happen already. There are few changesIn any case, I definitely think it's time to
stop spinning our wheels on 2.0 and actually start making it happen.
that are proposed, work is well under way - the only question is if we'll call it 1.6 or 2.0 or 3.0. And the name can only be set
in a release plan - until this happen we just work on 'the main tree'
and all changes are for 'the next major release of ant'.
I don't see how you can say that placing Ant 1.x in 'maintenance mode' is happening already. There is *NO* work at the moment on Ant 2.0 as a separate sanctioned item, there is no CVS repository, etc.
Giving it a new name with the same codebase doesn't address the existing documented requirements in a specific way. I see no push underway to take the Ant 2.0 requirements documents and plan for those to be integrated into the code base. I can see a lot of people's favourite small addition to 1.x being added to the tree.
Costin
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