Hi all

we planned to cut a new release of Ant soonish in order to help out the
people who use JVMs by Microsoft that all released versions of Ant
identify as an ancient JVM which needs special handling that breaks
things today.

I've got two things I want to get resolved one way or the other that
I've raised in threads over the past two weeks or so:

* Is my change to DateUtils#getNow fine as it is or should I separate
  the "override the notion of now" and "we want reproducible build"
  questions? If we opt for the latter, what should be the signal, is it
  the presence of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (as in getNow) or something else?
  And what should be "now" if it is something else?

* For Antlibs I really want to have a way for an Antlib to extend the
  classloader used by another Antlib. This basically is a requirement
  for Antlibs depending on Ivy that you want to load via Ivy. I'm fine
  with allowing typedef/taskdef to get a new parentLoaderRef for this
  (which would require writing some code, but much of it already exists)
  - or with documenting the classloader task that has been there for a
  long time (and is the reason much of the code for the former option
  already exists :-).

I'm completely neutral on both topics.

Is there anything else anybody is working on? Any issue we should
resolve upfront? Right now I assume that PRs that have been open for
years are not blocking as they've not blocked past releases either :-)

Stefan

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