On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Derick Rethans <der...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Gav... wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Derick Rethans wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Jerome Renard wrote: >> > >> > > I started to create an Ant based version of the Makefile available in >> > > website/ >> > > >> > > The problem with the Makefile is that it does not work at all on Mac >> > > Os X and is kind of hard to read. >> > >> > I am afraid that nobody else uses Ant here, so I would oppose that. >> >> Have you asked every user of Zetacomponents whether or not they use >> Ant? Where are the emails and replies for that? > > This is not a user thing; it's something to maintain the website of this > project. So this is irrelevant. > >> This is an open source project in an open source world housed at an >> open source organisation. You cannot oppose volunteers scratching >> their own itch. If jerome wants to provide an Ant alternative I do not >> see the harm. > > I do. If you move away from something that we call can maintain, so > something that less people can maintain, I think that's the wrong > direction. > >> If Jerome then wants to replace Make with Ant then that is another >> matter but still something that 'you' personally cannot oppose, that >> is a decision for the Podling PMC or the Incubator PMC, no one person >> has power here and the sooner folks realise this the sooner you might >> start attracting those> new committers your board report said you >> needed. > > Of course I can oppose to replacing Make with Ant. It simple means I am > stating that I am against it: > > op·pose > /əˈpoʊz/ Show Spelled [uh-pohz] verb, -posed, -pos·ing. > > –verb (used with object) > 1. to act against or provide resistance to; combat.> -- > And new committers we need for code, that's for sure. > > cheers, > Derick >
Anyway it's ASF here, let's look for consensus :) Julien
