Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
Sam Ruby wrote:
For projects I care about (and that's a *lot* of projects), I want the descriptors to *either* be actively maintained or someplace that bodewig, conor, Stephen, myself, and several others (hi leosimons and mpoeschl and mvdb and cmlenz!) can update.
This is not your requirement, it's a Gump need. It's quite evident to all.

Your way of making Gump runs work is to have a deep knowledge aff all Jakarta codebases and fix them yourself.

My view is that the Gump descriptors are the base of the daily builds of a project, so that users will be *forced* to maintain most of it, or else the project won't compile.
I agree. For Cactus, we're keeping a pretty damn good eye on the Gump results and tend to react to problems very quickly, because we use Gump for our nightly builds. I get cold shivers when I see a Cactus build soaked in a red background :-)

The vast majority of projects doesn't really on Gump for anything, though, which gets very evident in the universe of Maven built projects, for example.

I think keeping the Gump descriptor close to the project makes a lot of sense. But other situations like the recent mass-optionalizing of jaxp are also a concern. Perhaps, just following the guideline that projects should be able to maintain their gump descriptor themselves, as long as they really *care* about the results, is sufficient here.

For now, I'll leave the Cactus descriptor in jakarta-cactus.

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Christopher Lenz
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