Contacting vendors (was [RESULT][VOTE] Remove commercial tasks from Ant)

2010-07-01 Thread Bruce Atherton
On 30/06/2010 4:43 AM, Jan Matèrne wrote: Could you provide a mail 'template' we could use? I could try to contact the Synergy-people at IBM. Sure. How about this as a first attempt. Feedback and suggestions appreciated. -- On behalf of the Apache Ant Project, I am writing to let you kn

AW: [RESULT][VOTE] Remove commercial tasks from Ant

2010-06-30 Thread Jan Matèrne
> The next step I'd like to take is to contact all the companies that make > the commercial software whose tasks we are removing. With any luck some > of them will take over responsibility for the tasks. It will take me a > while to do this, though (I've just recently changed cities so my life > is

[RESULT][VOTE] Remove commercial tasks from Ant

2010-06-29 Thread Bruce Atherton
The results of the vote are in. Both motions passed. The motion to drop the commercial tasks from the binary release of Ant had 13 +1 votes for almost all the commercial tasks, and no -1 votes. The one exception was the Server Deploy subtasks, which Gilles voted +0 on, resulting in 12 +1 votes