Given available developer time and the slow speed at which Maven evolves, I'm not sure a generic policy is best. Practically we're not really supporting 3.8.x now. I'd be OK with a policy stating, "We support 3.9 and no other versions." That's not necessarily what we want but it is what we do.
When 4.0 is released, we change that to "We support 3.9 and 4.0." As time marches on, we add and remove numbers to match what we're really doing. On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM Hervé Boutemy <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote: > > or just keep the policy as we have, as it has been wisely worded: once 4 will > be GA, 3.8 will de-facto be EOL'ed as per policy intent > > no need to change policy, the currently one perfectly does the job: > https://maven.apache.org/docs/history.html > > Reagrds, > > Hervé > > Le dimanche 23 février 2025, 09:12:21 CET Anders Hammar a écrit : > > I think we should start by declaring maven 3.8.x EOL in preparation for > > maven 4. > > > > /Anders > > > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM Matthias Bünger > > <runningj...@web.de.invalid> > > wrote: > > > 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... > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
