Hi!

+1 - about time! :-)

Cheers

Jesper

On 28.05.2019 20:54, Robert Scholte wrote:
Hi,

The Apache Maven project consist of about 100 (sub)projects. Due to
the small number of volunteers and the huge amount of code to maintain
we're missing enough space to make real progress on all these
projects, including our ambitious ideas for the next major version(s)
of Maven itself.
To be able to gain more focus we need to criticize the current
subprojects and decide if it is worth maintaining.

The goal of the Apache Maven Ant Plugin it to generate Ant build files
based on a pom.xml and was released for the last time in December
2014. Due to the different ways that Ant and Maven work I don't think
it makes sense anymore to maintain a plugin to transform Maven files
to Ant.
See https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/
[https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/]

To be clear, this is NOT the plugin you can use to run Ant within
Maven; that's the maven-antrun-plugin.

I therefore propose that we retire the maven-ant-plugin.

I don't think it makes sense to do a final release. Instead we should
update the documentation and freeze the codebase.

The process for retiring a plugin is described here:
https://maven.apache.org/developers/retirement-plan-plugins.html 

The vote is open for 72 hours.
[ ] +1 Yes, it's about time
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