[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26791: Rewrite Grunt to Phing

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#26791: Rewrite Grunt to Phing
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 Reporter:  yani.iliev       |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Build Tools      |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:  close            |
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Comment (by nacin):

 Replying to [comment:6 bpetty]:
 > It's true that the decision to use Grunt was made internally without
 consulting the community (no discussion about it #wordpress-dev, just an
 [http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/08/06/a-new-frontier-for-core-
 development/ announcement on make/core], along with it's corresponding
 ticket, #24976). I'd be great to be able to link to an archived discussion
 where the pros/cons of each were hashed out before a decision was made.

 For what it's worth, the decision came out of discussions at the WordCamp
 San Francisco contributor day. The working group was announced at the
 start of the day, and the group and its discussions were open for anyone
 there who wanted to participate. We had a lot of problems and needs; the
 group was tasked with identifying them and then coming up with a proposed
 solution. Grunt was indeed one piece of the solution, but that wasn't
 necessarily the goal from the onset. I wasn't involved in the
 conversations either, instead letting smart people come up with a
 proposal.

 Among the committers and top contributors at the contributor day, there
 was overwhelming support for the proposed solutions (unified tests/src
 repository, new task runner and build process, etc.) and so we immediately
 went about implementing them. Yeah, it bypassed IRC, and of course it
 would have been nice if the conversations occurred online rather than in
 person. But, the blog post was designed to function as minutes from the
 day's discussions, in order to leave a paper trail. That *is* the archived
 discussion.

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