+1 On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 8:55 PM Robert Scholte <rfscho...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > The Apache Maven project consist of about 100 (sub)projects. Due to the > small number of volunteers and the huge amount of code to maintain we're > missing enough space to make real progress on all these projects, including > our ambitious ideas for the next major version(s) of Maven itself. > To be able to gain more focus we need to criticize the current subprojects > and decide if it is worth maintaining. > > The goal of the Apache Maven Ant Plugin it to generate Ant build files > based on a pom.xml and was released for the last time in December 2014. Due > to the different ways that Ant and Maven work I don't think it makes > sense anymore to maintain a plugin to transform Maven files to Ant. > See https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/ [ > https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/] > > To be clear, this is NOT the plugin you can use to run Ant within Maven; > that's the maven-antrun-plugin. > > I therefore propose that we retire the maven-ant-plugin. > > I don't think it makes sense to do a final release. Instead we should > update the documentation and freeze the codebase. > > The process for retiring a plugin is described here: > https://maven.apache.org/developers/retirement-plan-plugins.html > > The vote is open for 72 hours. > [ ] +1 Yes, it's about time > [ ] -1 No, because...
