+1
On 29/5/62 01:54, Robert Scholte 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...
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