From dev-return-86883-apmail-ant-dev-archive=ant.apache.org@ant.apache.org Fri Mar 9 21:16:08 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 780E592DD for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 21:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27169 invoked by uid 500); 9 Mar 2012 21:16:08 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 27090 invoked by uid 500); 9 Mar 2012 21:16:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list dev@ant.apache.org Received: (qmail 27081 invoked by uid 99); 9 Mar 2012 21:16:08 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:16:08 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of mansour.alakeel@gmail.com designates 209.85.215.45 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.215.45] (HELO mail-lpp01m010-f45.google.com) (209.85.215.45) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:16:00 +0000 Received: by lahe6 with SMTP id e6so2251082lah.4 for ; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:15:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OcE8vupWgp/wxg+rcstAxMH0zOfa6J/Z/8HExrovWvc=; b=Xg5zjrKUa6bxHScE5tIAO8jGKGLsB65o6WR+TpGKNg5jEWZOktcykAtTAQWzf1ksCc Dv5X0MXqoqFYWguYJE/746q0onwJa99Ler2lcqs5gy4LrfbYFAoHAkuUX/9v1T0kS9NY UlbWis5cGZUjgF8ojN7FElYP5DDfRRtS4gY5mcaKgWoGpqKumUp43lEiluJcNvbhXjOB vrGYVzwrAXhig/U/G+yyy4h8ytMb/8DudR0L+BPrP/ekTEZnKrowzXM88Uzl+QKG4W4X 6dlBDCg19qBURrU8ZIxfrdABDBCYYKCslfxE0Sv3P0Wv31Nxfs+flrxiKgBVXDMxvmgs BKsQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.102.37 with SMTP id fl5mr1333429lbb.95.1331327740088; Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:15:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.147.200 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:15:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87obs5r715.fsf@v35516.1blu.de> References: <87obs5r715.fsf@v35516.1blu.de> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:15:40 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Tasks to be contributed From: Mansour Al Akeel To: Ant Developers List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Thank you Stephan for your time. Ok, so let's ask here. I wrote a task that monitors a directory for file changes and when changes occur it triggers another task. This task helps me a lot in recompiling the modified code and copy resource files to the destination in case of a webapp. I think others may find it useful, especially those who doesn't use an IDE all the time. I wrote this task for my usage, and it uses java 1.7 NIO. Before I contribute something like this, I will need to rewrite it to use the currently supported java versions. the task is very simple: Which works great for me. I may have to rewrite to use resource and to make it consistent with the rest of the task. So my question, do other users think this can be useful for the community ? On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2012-03-09, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > >> How do the community decide what tasks to be added to the distribution >> and what to be distributed some where else. > > The people who write the tasks and want to see them included with Ant > ask on the dev list (or attach them to Ant's bugzilla) and if a > committer feels like committing the task it will be done. =A0If the task > may be controversial in scope, this likely won't happen without > discussion. > >> For example, some tasks from ant-contribution are widely used. > > Most if not all of these have not been written with the intention to > include them in Ant. =A0The people behind the ant-contrib project are a > separate bunch of people from the Ant dev team even if some have been on > both teams at one point in time. > >> How do I know if a task can be contributed and added to the core ? > > Ask for the concrete task 8-) > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org