Hi all,
Attached is my status report on the Ant project which I have just sent to the ASF board. If anyone has comments or questions, please feel free to let us know.
Status Report for the Ant project
o Ant 1.6.3
Ant 1.6.3 was released on April 28 2005
A large number of changes were included in the release although most are small in nature. Subsequent to release a few bugs have been found, one of which affects operation of javah. This will require a follow-up Ant 1.6.4 release.
o Ant 1.7
Ant 1.7 development continues in the CVS head
o Antlibs Subproject
We have created an Antlibs subproject. The rationale is to separate groups of tasks, which are currently included with the main Ant core and release these separately. This approach will allow for task updates to have much shorter release cycles than the Ant core, whose release cycles have been fairly long to date. By reducing the core size, it would also have the advantage of reducing the core release cycle as well.
o Subversion conversion
An Ant subversion repository has been set up by infrastructure at our request. We have not yet converted the main Ant repository to subversion as we did not want to overlap that process with the 1.6.3 release. Ant 1.7 will be released from subversion and we expect the conversion to occur once the release issues of the current Ant 1.6.x releases settle down.
The subversion repository will host code for the Antlibs subproject we have created.
o Antidote
Antidote was an Ant GUI project which has been in Ant's CVS for a long time now. It has never been able to attract sufficient critical mass to ensure its development was sustainable. As Ant support is provided in all main Java IDEs, we decided to retire the Antidote subproject.
o Legal Issues
None.
o Committers
We have made a number of inactive committers emeritus. we have recently added Alexey Solofnenko as a committer.
Magesh Umasankar has retired from the PMC due to time constraints.
o Community
Community is healthy - no issues.
Conor
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