+1 to drop all listed commercial tasks from Ant distributions
+1 to create antlib in sandbox for each dropped task
Maarten
----- Original Message ----
From: Bruce Atherton <br...@callenish.com>
To: Ant Developers List <dev@ant.apache.org>
Sent: Sat, June 19, 2010 8:38:54 PM
Subject: [VOTE] Remove commercial tasks from Ant
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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