Hi, It seems to me that we don't have a clear roadmap for the switch to Maven.
Points: - will we ever drop Ant for branch-3.4 and branch-3.5? I assume that for master it is not a problem - the release with Maven will have different results than the Ant based one, at least I expect a more 'modularized' release of binaries to Maven central: is it only for master or will we switch all of the active branches? (Current 3.4.14 vote had been prepared with Ant, and Maven on branch-3.4 is not ready yet) - what is preventing us from dropping ant/Ivy stuff from master? On the CI side we only have to migrate the precommit job completely, current Maven job is doing a few checks but not all of the Ant based one. IMHO we should drop Ant stuff from 3.5 now that we releasing it as 'stable' and drop it from master as well. I would leave 3.4 as it is now, the code base has been refactored in order to be like 3.5 and master and this will help cherry-picks but we can keep Ant there and spend our efforts on master. Best regards Enrico
