Hi,
during the last days / weeks the topic of (end of) support of Maven and
it's plugins came up several times in Slack.
On the history page it is stated that we support the last two minor
versions. Looking at the releases, there was only one regression / small
backport patch for Maven 3.8 about two months after Maven 3.9 was
released. There wasn't any update for Maven 3.6 (or older) after the
following minor version has been released.
Some of the discussion participants in Slack also said that literally we
only support the last minor version.
Taking in consideration that we already "struggle" of getting things
done I would like to start a discussion about the following two topics:
1) Declare Maven 3.8.x as EOL, especially as it requires Java 1.7. Last
release (3.8.8) on 2023-03-08.
2) Change our support policy to: "We support only last minor version,
except when there was the release of a new major version. Then we
continue to support the last minor version of the previous major version
for some more time too" ("some" not specificed on purpose).
I personally think that in reality it does not make any real difference,
but it takes away some constraints and "pressure" for us.
What do you think?
--
Matthias
P.S. I know that faster EOL of versions can result in problems for teams
in small-changing companies. At my work we got some tools, that still
only support Java EE 6 and Java 8 while we don't get newer versions
provided by ops...
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