Peter Donald wrote:
Hi,
I think there is a few different proposals here.
Could/Should Ant be a top level project? We have at least one ASF Member (Stefan) so we should "qualify". Do we have enough active members to ensure healthy progression ?
Personally I think it would be healthy for Apache if Ant (or a set of build related projects) moved to their own top-level project. A possible "federation" may be gump, ant, maven, centipede and alexandria (but in graveyard mode). This would hopefully make it more likely that people have a direct control in their own destiny and would also help promote responsibility in the committers.
So my opinion would be +1 for a top level project. Whether it is ant.apache.org or tools.apache.org or whatever I don't think is really that relevent.
It would also help to get jakarta get back to its original scope which Ant is clearly outside of.
Whether Centipede, Anteater or any other ant based products written by Apache peeps comes to this project is another question. I have no problem with it as long as they go through and graduate from incubator.apache.org when it gets it's feet.
Excuses about my reference to Centipede in Ant, it was indeed just a stone in the water, not a formal proposal.
The original plan was indeed to eventually make it pass the incubator, and what I envisioned was just _one_ possible outcome.
Anyway, the reference server its purpose since you guys are getting out your thoughts clear, and I like it :-)
From a person involved in Ant but not committer: +1 for ant.apache.org +1 for a tools.apache.org _federation_ for Ant, Gump, Maven, etc...
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