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ant plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter

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Project
craft-parts
Number
#1232
Type
issue
State
open
Author
lengau
Labels
Status: Needs information
Created
Updated
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Current evaluation

Ant plugin support for disable-parallel is unimplemented; the request remains open as Needs information, with maintainers requesting a real-world case that fails under parallel builds.

Suggested action: needs triage

Reason: The Status: Needs information label and explicit request for a reproducible real-world failure show that maintainers have not prioritized or fully scoped the work. Source inspection confirms that ant_plugin.py has no disable_parallel field or parallelism handling, but a practical Ant mechanism and failing project are still needed.

Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot

Impact: 30 Quick Win: 10 Complexity: 25 Confidence: 90 Actionability: 45

Issue body

### What needs to get done Support the [disable-parallel](https://canonical-craft-parts.readthedocs-hosted.com/latest/common/craft-parts/reference/part_properties/#disable-parallel) part property in the ant plugin. ### Why it needs to get done All of our plugins should theoretically support this. In practice though, this is extremely low priority until someone shows us a real-world use case for it. If someone can bring us a real-world use case that we can test against (especially a case of "this application simply does not build with parallel"), that would be ideal. The [autotools plugin](https://github.com/canonical/craft-parts/pull/1167) required this for OpenJDK builds, for example.

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
stealth/space-bunny-alpha
Impact: 30
Quick Win: 10
Complexity: 25
Confidence: 90
Actionability: 45
needs triage Ant plugin support for disable-parallel is unimplemented; the request remains open as Needs information, with maintainers requesting a real-world case that fails under parallel builds.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Impact: 30
Quick Win: 17
Complexity: 20
Confidence: 70
Actionability: 70
keep open Add disable-parallel part property support to the ant plugin. Open 384 days with no real-world use case provided despite maintainer request.
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Impact: 15
Quick Win: 12
Staleness: 85
Complexity: 20
Confidence: 82
Support Request: 10
close stale Feature request to add the disable-parallel part property to the ant plugin. Labeled 'Needs information' and waiting ~1 year for a real-world use case; maintainer explicitly called it extremely low priority until one is provided.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Staleness: 85
Complexity: 45
Confidence: 75
Support Request: 10
needs triage Feature request to add disable-parallel parameter support to the ant plugin. Currently inactive for over 10 months and awaiting a real-world use case or team prioritization.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Staleness: 90
Complexity: 30
Confidence: 70
Support Request: 10
needs triage Request to add disable-parallel support to the ant plugin. Labeled needs information, awaiting a real-world use case. Inactive for ~10 months with no maintainer response.

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Related work

  • Related To: craft-parts#1237 (confidence 100%)

    The open Go-plugin issue requests the same disable-parallel capability.

  • Related To: craft-parts#1247 (confidence 100%)

    The open Python-plugin issue requests the same capability and records unresolved control-semantics questions.

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