| [eclipse.org-planning-council] Buildship to join Mars |
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Greetings Planning Council. The Buildship project, which provides Eclipse integration with Gradle, has been provisioned and has started the process of engaging with the IP team. Assuming that they make it through the IP process, I'd like for them to be included in the Mars release. I believe very strongly that having great Gradle support is a key ingredient in maintaining relevance in the Java development community and so is a critical factor in our continuing success in that space. One possible wrinkle with their inclusion (aside from the obvious timing concerns) is that they use Guava 18 and--AFAICT--the Mars repository currently contains version 15 (and 12 which is a little curious). I've noticed that m2e has a piggyback on version 18 as well. I'll investigate further. With this note, I'm giving you a "heads up" that this is coming and plan on formally asking for the exception when the project has progressed to the point of hosting builds on Eclipse infrastructure. I've discussed this with Doug, the council's representative from the Tools PMC. He is in agreement. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns (including the obvious). Wayne --
Wayne Beaton @waynebeaton The Eclipse Foundation  |