> Let's skip Maven and move straight to Gradle, it has the benefit of not > needing a build system installed on the developers machine, as it gets > downloaded by the wrapper checked into the repo. This is yet one less > version that is required by the contributor. > It's built on top of Ant, and should give us all the flexibility we need. >
Maven is used by so many ASF projects and especially projects using Tomcat like TomEE, it would be nice to share contents and expertises. Also, Maven is way more used in companies than Gradle or Ant/Ivy. It should help also for companies (or companies developpers) contribution.
