releasing maven-javadoc-plugin

2019-12-16 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
I would like to release Apache parent POM this WE (then Maven parent POMs), with plugin versions that support Reproducible Builds The last plugin to upgrade is maven-javadoc-plugin: Reproducible Builds for that plugin is ok (MJAVADOC-627), but there are 4 issues open affected to the future vers

Re: Defining EoL for Older Maven Versions

2019-12-16 Thread Manfred Moser
Chiming in late since I remember we discussed this before. Here is my view. All releases beyond the most recent one are essentially end of lifed. We never backport, we have no explicit support and whenever we fix something it goes into the next release. That is what we concluded last time and

Re: Defining EoL for Older Maven Versions

2019-12-16 Thread Karl Heinz Marbaise
On 15.12.19 12:14, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: Tentative +1. Is there any reason we would ever backport a fix to 3.0 or 3.2? E.g. this was the last release to support Java 1.6. Unfortunately my crystal ball is under repair...I can't see into the future... I would say if we a really bad secur

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Maven Source Plugin version 3.2.1

2019-12-16 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
for those interested, I add the "Reproducible Builds (free) Bounty" :) instructions: - use JDK 8 on an Unix (and please share if you find a trick to build on Windows, geting the same result) - please install locally maven-buildinfo-plugin https://github.com/apache/maven-studies/tree/maven-buildi

[VOTE] Release Apache Maven Source Plugin version 3.2.1

2019-12-16 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
Hi, We solved 2 issues: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12317924&version=12346480&styleName=Text Staging repo: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/maven-1545/ https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/maven-1545/org/apache/maven/plugins/ma

[ANN] Apache Maven Release Plugin 3.0.0-M1 Released

2019-12-16 Thread Hervé Boutemy
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Release Plugin, version 3.0.0-M1. This plugin is used to release a project with Maven, saving a lot of repetitive, manual work. Releasing a project is made in two steps: prepare and perform. https://maven.apache.org