On 2025/02/12 18:59:19 Matthias Bünger wrote: > 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?
With Doxia 2.0.0, consider it dead. The FO part is poorely configured is still uses Type 1 fonts. Unicode is a severe problem which was never addressed. All of this is solveable with FO, but no one will allocate resources. Start a vote for archiving. Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
