On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 04:06, Robert Scholte <[email protected]> wrote:
> To me these are 2 different things. > Yes, we are going to require Maven 3.1 for our plugins (and because of API > changes we need to be explicit about this), but that doesn't mean that > Maven 3.0.x itself is end of life. > > Depending on how you ask the question, to me EOLs are either about majors > or minors. > It is clear to me we won't do anything for Maven 2 anymore. > At the same time, I expect we will never do a 3.3.10 or 3.5.5. > If we are not marking versions as EOL we will eventually have to provide a security fix. In case of security issues found in 3.0.5, do we really want to have to release 3.0.6, 3.1.2, 3.2.6 etc.... I guess it's the main reason for marking versions as EOL. > > I don't know what people expect by a statement about EOL: nobody has a > support contract for Maven, so talking about EOL doesn't make any sense to > me. > It all depends on what critical issue may appear, based on that we'll make > our decision. > To me it is either: EOL for Maven2 and/or with every new release the > previous will be marked as EOL. > We just want to be clear in the bureaucratic POV we will not provide security fixes for those versions marked EOL. I'm +1 we clearly define which versions are "supported" (at least security fixe) and which versions are EOL. > > Robert > > > > > On 13-6-2020 17:26:15, Elliotte Rusty Harold <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we've achieved consensus that Maven 3.0.x should no longer be > supported by new plugin releases and 3.1.x is our minimum. Assuming > that's true, this PR updates the history page to account for that: > > https://github.com/apache/maven-site/pull/176 > > If anyone thinks we have not achieved consensus, or should not > announce that 3.0.x is end of life, please say so. > > As always, please also comment on exact language of the PR, markup > syntax, and other pages that need to be updated. Thanks. > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold > [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Olivier Lamy http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
