enthusiastic +1
Craig
On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote:
I would like to present for a vote the following proposal to be
sponsored by
the Ant PMC for a new "EasyAnt" podling.
The proposal is available on the wiki at and included below:
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/EasyAntProposal
[] +1 to accept EasyAnt into the Incubator
[] 0 don't care
[] -1 object and reason why.
Thanks,
Antoine Levy-Lambert
--- Proposal text from the wiki ---
EasyAnt Proposal
The following presents the proposal for creating a new EasyAnt
project within the Apache Software Foundation.
= Abstract =
Easyant is a build system based on Apache Ant and Apache Ivy.
= 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.
= 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!
= Current Status =
== 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.
== 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.
== 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.
== 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)
= Known risks =
== 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.
== 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.
== Homogenous Developers ==
The existing committers are spread over a number of countries and
employers.
== Reliance on Salaried Developers ==
None of the developers rely on EasyAnt for consulting work.
== 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.
== 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.
= 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
= Initial Source =
The initial code base can be found at: http://svn.easyant.org/
= Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan =
Every developer is willing to sign the proper papers to make EasyAnt
enter the ASF.
= External Dependencies =
Easyant requires at compile/runtime :
* apache ant
* apache ivy
* ant contrib
= Required Resources =
== Mailing lists ==
* easyant-private (with moderated subscriptions)
* easyant-dev
== Subversion Directory ==
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/easyant
== Issue Tracking ==
JIRA EasyAnt (EASYANT)
= Initial Committers =
* Xavier Hanin
* J™ér™ôme Benois
* Jason Trump
* Siddhartha Purkayastha
* Nicolas Lalev™ée
* Jean-Louis Boudart
= Sponsors =
== Champions ==
* Antoine L™évy-Lambert
== Nominated Mentors ==
* Antoine L™évy-Lambert
* Stefan Bodewig
== Sponsoring Entity ==
* Apache Ant
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