Hi all, some months ago, we noticed that the regular build of the Maven PDF plugin broke, because the plugin is not compatible to Doxia 2.0.0 (also see MPDF-112). The question raised, if we should retrie the PDF plugin.
Some information: Last version, 1.6.1, was released in August 2022. However almost all PR of this plugin since 2020 were dependency updates brought up by dependabot. So you could argue that the plugin is somehow "dead". Monthly downloads of ALL versions were around 43.000 over the last year, with a peak in October and November reaching 57.000 downloads. However since December it crashed down to 17.000 downloads according to central stats. If we look at the last version, the monthly downloads raised from 19.000 in February 2024 to a peak of 33.500 in October. Since December they are down to 11.000 downloads per month, which are roughly 65% of all downloads of the plugin. As a comparison: The total number of downloads of the Maven compiler plugin (which ofc is a core plugin) is almost 32,5 million per months (almost 42 million in October 2024, but the mentioned "crash" in December is noticeable throughout all plugins. -------- So I want to start the discussion by asking: Who is using the pdf plugin? Did you switch to other tools for generating documentation (for example ASCII Doc [plugin])? What do you think about archiving the PDF plugin? What do you think? Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
