We don't provide any support at all, we do maintenance. Support is paid.
On 2025/02/22 11:57:08 Matthias Bünger 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...
>
>
>
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