Ant supplies several tasks that require commercial software in order to
run. This is a problem because the Ant developers do not typically have
access to the commercial products required to test, maintain, and
enhance the tasks. It also means that users downloading the binary
edition of Ant end up with a lot of tasks that they cannot use.
In order to rectify this situation, I'm calling a vote on how to deal
with these unsupportable tasks. The vote is composed of two parts:
should we drop support for each of these tasks from the Ant release, and
should we establish the commercial tasks that have been dropped as
Antlibs in the sandbox.
1. Should the following commercial tasks be dropped from being
distributed with the Ant release?
[ ] Continuous/Synergy tasks: CCMCheckin, CCMCheckout,
CCMCheckinTask, CCMReconfigure, CCMCreateTask
[ ] Clearcase tasks: CCCheckin, CCCheckout, CCUnCheckout, CCUpdate,
CCMklbtype, CCMklabel, CCRmtype, CCLock, CCUnlock, CCMkbl, CCMkattr,
CCMkdir, CCMkelem
[ ] Perforce Tasks: P4Sync, P4Change, P4Edit, P4Submit, P4Have,
P4Label, P4Labelsync, P4Counter, P4Reopen, P4Revert, P4Add, P4Delete,
P4Integrate, P4Resolve, P4Fstat
[ ] PVCS
[ ] ServerDeploy, but only for the jonas and weblogic nested elements,
generic can stay where it is.
[ ] Source Offsite: sosget, soslabel, soscheckin, soscheckout
[ ] Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (already an Antlib)
2. Should the commercial tasks that are voted for dropping from Ant core
above be established in their own Antlibs in the sandbox?
[ ] +1 = Yes, establish one new Antlib in the sandbox for each task
dropped
-1 = No, just drop the commercial tasks altogether from Ant
Note that question 1 is a vote for code modification, so any -1 vote on
question 1 is considered a veto. Question 2 is just for guidance from
the community about whether there is a desire to keep the commercial
tasks around in Antlibs. Since any committer can create a sandbox Antlib
at any time, the vote is non-binding and any -1 vote just indicates that
the voter does not think that this is a good idea rather than being a veto.
Three or more +1 votes with no -1 votes are required for dropping any of
the commercial tasks. The vote will end in one week.
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