interested in the idea 'Change build system to gradle' and prepare to write a proposal

[Dirk Stöcker]

Hello,

> I am Hongfei Shen(you can call me Jeffy).I study Software Engineering at
> Software School, Dalian University of Technology, China.I have learnt
> Groovy and Gradle last winter vacation.In that vacation, I was interested
> in web-development and was coding back-end using Groovy. In this summer
> vacation I’d like to work on the idea ‘JOSM: Change build system to
> gradle’.I think a good and easy-to-use build method is something like
> infrastructure to a program and creating that is both meaningful and
> interesting. But for now, I am wondering what I should do to write a good
> proposal. Learning plan about ANT, learning how the project is build, or
> anything? Could you please give me some suggestions?

I removed this GSOC idea. While ant has surely drawbacks it is not planned 
ATM to change the build system of JOSM. A conceptual study would 
be possible, but that effort could better be spent on other projects.

See also https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/8269

If you want to contribute to JOSM in another place, have a look at our bug 
tracker for ideas. There are many ideas and some of them big enough for an 
GSOC project.

Ciao
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