Somebody has to mention it, so why not me. Gump has been promoted to a stand alone project in Apache land and is no longer a sub-project of Jakarta. This is another step to show that Gump isn't all about Java, or at least it shouldn't be.
Gump started as an integration project for some Apache code bases, building projects every night from CVS and compiling each project against the latest version of the projects it depends upon - instead of a released version. It has since then by far outgrown its initial purpose and is in use to communicate code changes between 484 projects in 181 modules (being CVS or Subversion modules) right now - actually Gump's purpose is now to get the developers of those projects to communicate with each other.
Right now it can only build projects that either use a shell-script/batch-file combo or Ant, Maven support is on the way.
It's still very much Java centric, something we really want to address. We (well, most of the work is done by Adam) are currently rewriting Gump in Python. If you are interested in helping out, or want to help us reach into non-Java projects, you are more than welcome. Please join us at generalATgump.apache.org.
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