Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

http://buildr.rubyforge.org/

I like the centralized dependency management Maven has, and I like the simple tasks I can write easily on my own that Ant has. I could deal with M1, and the whole "Jelly" thing for tasks (or making a plugin via Jelly), but M2 crushed all that and made it worse for the people - plugins are now a big ordeal (at least to me, where I just want to tweak something fast, maybe I still dont' get it).

Buildr says it gives you quick access to tasks AND uses the same repos as Maven - brilliant.

I haven't tried it, but it sounds like it might actually live up to it's slogan: "
The build system that doesn't suck."