Hi,
We got no answer concerning Easyant.
Does this mean that the proposal is non-controversial and that we should
move on to a vote ?
Regards,
Antoine
On 1/11/2011 12:28 PM, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote:
Hello all,
We'd like to propose Easyant for entry into the ASF incubator.
Easyant is providing a solution for projects who want to use Ant and
Ivy with a lot of ready-made templates, with the option to customize.
The draft proposal is available at :
http://easyant.org/projects/easyant/wiki/ApacheProposal
The Ant project has voted to sponsor the entry of Easyant at the
Incubator [1].
For your convenience I have pasted this proposal below the email.
Regards,
Antoine
[1]
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ant-dev/201101.mbox/%3c3a73c5da-e4a2-4cb6-8423-0a985246f...@hibnet.org%3E
h1. EasyAnt Proposal
The following presents the proposal for creating a new EasyAnt project
within the Apache Software Foundation.
h2. Abstract
Easyant is a build system based on Apache Ant and Apache Ivy.
h2. Proposal
EasyAnt goals are :
* to leverage popularity and flexibility of Ant.
* to integrate Apache Ivy, such that the build system combines a
ready-to-use dependency manager.
* to simplify standard build types, such as building web
applications, JARs etc, by providing ready to use builds.
* to provide conventions and guidelines.
* to make plugging-in of fresh functionalities easy as writing
simple Ant scripts as Easyant plugins.
To still remain adaptable,
* Though Easyant comes with a lot of conventions, we never lock
you in.
* Easyant allows you to easily extend existing modules or create
and use your own modules.
* Easyant makes migration from Ant very simple. Your legacy Ant
scripts could still be leveraged with Easyant.
h2. Rationale
On the Ivy and Ant mailing list, an often asked question is "Why Ivy
is not shipped with Ant ?". Ant users (and some opponents) complains
also about the bootstrapping of an Ant based build system: it is
mainly about copying an existing one. EasyAnt is intended to response
to both of these requirements: a prepackaged Ant + Ivy solution with
standard build script ready to be used.
Also taking inspiration from the success of Apache Maven, EasyAnt is
adopting the "convention over configuration" principle. Then it could
be easy to build standard project at least for all commons steps (no
more need to reinvent the wheel between each projects). The "common"
part should be easy enough to tune parameters without having deep ant
knowledge (example changing the default directory of sources, force
compilation to be java 1.4 compatible, etc...).
Last but not least, EasyAnt is intended to provide a plugin based
architecture to make it easy to contribute on a specific step of the
build. Build plugins are pieces of functionality that can be plugged
into or removed from a project. Plugins could actually perform a piece
of your regular build, e.g. compile java classes during build of a
complete war. Or, do a utility action, e.g. deploy your built web
application onto a packaged Jetty server!
h2. Current Status
h3. Meritocracy
Some of the core developers are already committers and members of the
Apache Ant PMC, so they understand what it means to have a process
based on meritocracy.
h3. Community
EasyAnt have a really small community (around 100 downloads per
release). It is not a problem as the team is currently making
restructuring changes. The team plans to make more promotion after
those changes and strongly believe that community is the priority as
the tool is designed to be easy to use.
h3. Core Developers
Xavier Hanin and Nicolas Lalev�ée are members of the PMC of Apache Ant.
Jerome Benois is an Acceleo committer, he was a committer in Eclipse
MDT Papyrus for two years and he's an active contributor in Eclipse
Modeling and Model Driven community. He's a committer on Bushel
project now contribute to the Ivy code base. He leads the EasyAnt for
Eclipse plugin development.
Jason Trump is leading Beet project on sourceforge
(http://beet.sourceforge.net/).
Jean-Louis Boudart is Hudson committer.
h3. Alignment
EasyAnt is based on Apache Ant and Ivy. Being part of Apache could
help for a closer collaboration between projects.
The team plans to reinject as much as possible stuff into Ant or Ivy
like they've done in the past on :
* extensionPoint : kind of IoC for targets (Ant)
* import/include mechanism (Ant)
* module inheritance (Ivy)
h2. Known risks
h3. Orphaned products
Jean-Louis Boudart is the main developer of EasyAnt. Other developers
got interested in this project and are now touching to every aspect of
EasyAnt. Thus the risk of being orphaned is quite limited.
h3. Inexperience with Open Source
Many of the committers have experience working on open source
projects. Two of them have experience as committers on other Apache
projects.
h3. Homogenous Developers
The existing committers are spread over a number of countries and
employers.
h3. Reliance on Salaried Developers
None of the developers rely on EasyAnt for consulting work.
h3. Relationships with Other Apache Products
As already stated above, EasyAnt is intended to have a quite good
integration with both Apache Ant and Apache Ivy.
h3. A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand
As we're already based on many Apache project (Ant + Ivy), it seems
natural for us that Apache Software Foundation could be a good host
for this.
h2. Documentation
Further reading on EasyAnt can be found at: http://www.easyant.org/doc/
Mailing list is located at http://groups.google.com/group/easyant
h2. Initial Source
The initial code base can be found at: http://svn.easyant.org/
h2. Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan
Ever developer is willing to sign the proper papers to make EasyAnt
enter the ASF.
h2. External Dependencies
Easyant requires at compile/runtime :
* apache ant
* apache ivy
* ant contrib
h2. Required Resources
h3. Mailing lists
* easyant-private (with moderated subscriptions)
* easyant-dev
h3. Subversion Directory
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/easyant
h3. Issue Tracking
JIRA EasyAnt (EASYANT)
h2. Initial Committers
* Xavier Hanin
* J�ér�ôme Benois
* Jason Trump
* Siddhartha Purkayastha
* Nicolas Lalev�ée
* Jean-Louis Boudart
h2. Sponsors
h3. Champions
* Antoine L�évy-Lambert
h3. Nominated Mentors
* Antoine L�évy-Lambert
h3. Sponsoring Entity
* Apache Ant
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