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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:42:04 +0100
Subject: Re: gump for incubating projects?
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From: robert burrell donkin <robertburrelldonkin@blueyonder.co.uk>
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On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 07:38 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, robert burrell donkin <rdonkin@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> is there anything to prevent gump builds being set up for incubating
>> projects?
>>
>> (other than actually doing the work, of course ;)
>
> This last one is probably the biggest obstacle, as whoever does the
> work needs to be at least slightly familiar with both, the incubating
> project and Gump.  I'll be happy to lend a hand where needed.

great thanks. i'm going to take a look at the documentation now. i'll 
probably have some questions soon.

> Also note that Gump can't work on Maven builds yet, so all projects
> that use Maven exclusively (say, Geronimo) will need to also provide a
> vanilla Ant build file in CVS.  AFAIU Maven offers a plugin to create
> those and as a bonus can create a (hopefully) proper Gump descriptor
> as well.  In this case most of the work has been done and all that's
> needed is referencing the project in Gump's default profile, which I
> offer to do (just tell me, where to look for the descriptor).

the incubating projects i'm interesting in gumping are both ant-only 
builds.

- robert