Contacting vendors (was [RESULT][VOTE] Remove commercial tasks from Ant)

[Bruce Atherton <br...@callenish.com>]

On 30/06/2010 4:43 AM, Jan Matèrne wrote:
> Could you provide a mail 'template' we could use?
> I could try to contact the Synergy-people at IBM.
>    

Sure. How about this as a first attempt. Feedback and suggestions 
appreciated.

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On behalf of the Apache Ant Project, I am writing to let you know that 
the Ant development team has recently voted to remove all commercial 
software tasks from future Ant releases, including tasks which support 
your product []. This decision was made because the developers have 
found it impossible to develop and maintain the tasks when they lack 
access to the software that the tasks are designed to interact with.

We recognize that dropping these tasks will have a negative impact on 
your customers. We therefore suggest that your organization take over 
development, maintenance, and release of the code for these tasks. If 
you do so we will provide a pointer on the Ant site indicating where 
people can find these tasks on your web site, thereby easing the 
transition for your customers.

If you are unable or unwilling to take over responsibility for these 
tasks, we will try to move them into an unsupported Ant Library. How 
long this will take is unknown, and the results are unlikely to work 
correctly since we lack the ability to test them. It will be left to 
your customers to try to figure out how to make the library work.

We plan to remove the tasks September 1st. Please let us know what your 
intentions are prior to that date so that we can plan accordingly.

Thank you.


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Re: Contacting vendors

[Bruce Atherton <br...@callenish.com>]

On 06/07/2010 1:57 AM, Kevin Jackson wrote:
> How about adding that of course the customers can continue to use the
> current version of Ant as is with the tasks integrated and that it
> will only affect people that use the latest versions (ok my wording is
> crappy, but to let them know that we're not dropping support from the
> current version, just for future development)
>    

Good point. I'll add that.


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Re: Contacting vendors

[Kevin Jackson <fo...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

>> Sure. How about this as a first attempt. Feedback and suggestions
>> appreciated.
>

How about adding that of course the customers can continue to use the
current version of Ant as is with the tasks integrated and that it
will only affect people that use the latest versions (ok my wording is
crappy, but to let them know that we're not dropping support from the
current version, just for future development)

Kev

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Re: Contacting vendors

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On 2010-07-01, Bruce Atherton wrote:

> On 30/06/2010 4:43 AM, Jan Matèrne wrote:
>> Could you provide a mail 'template' we could use?
>> I could try to contact the Synergy-people at IBM.

> Sure. How about this as a first attempt. Feedback and suggestions
> appreciated.

"I am not a native speaker" disclaimer - looks good to me.

Stefan

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