Vincent Massol wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "jakarta-commons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 5:33 PM
> Subject: Sandbox for Wayward Ant Tasks
>
> > Does anyone have a problem with me creating a sandbox directory for
> > wayward Ant Tasks that have either not yet made it into Ant CVS or are
> > too specific for that purpose?
> >
>
> The question is where do we store these tasks ? I'm not sure the
> jakarta-commons is the correct place. It seems to me that it would be better
> if it were linked to the Ant project itself. However, if the goal is to
> develop the idea of this repository and just make an experiment so that
> later on the Ant project could reclaim it, then why not. But I am not in
> favor of moving it to the commons later because I think it fits better with
> the Ant project.
Right - I guess this is my line of thinking : why won't Ant do this?
I think the spirit behind the openness of the sandbox is that its to be
a place for people to freely collaborate in the incubation and beginning
development of an idea, and also is a place for developers from multiple
Jakarta projects to come together to work on something in common - then
they either take it back home to one of the projects, or make into a
commons component if appropos.
The intent, of many anyway, was not be a holding tank for software with
no other home.
> Also, if we want this to be successful, we need to have the cooperation of
> the Ant committers so that they redirect all persons submitting Ant tasks to
> the sandbox.
Can they set up their own sandbox? The sandbox idea is a good one, and
there is no reason why projects can't do their own if they have
project-specific needs. An Ant task seems pretty Ant-specific. :)
> And they will also need to advertise the sandbox on the Ant web
> site so that persons know where to find contributed Ant tasks.
I don't think its a good idea to even implicitly release something out
of the sandbox.... we've been over this a bit, if I remember.
> I still
> persist in saying that a CVS sub directory in Ant would still be better than
> the sandbox because more appropriate.
Yes.
> But I am +10000 with the idea of having a repository of wayward tasks for
> Ant. The only question is where ?
>
How about somewhere in the Ant project? :)
geir
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