On 4 October 2015 at 19:48, Robert Scholte <rfscho...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > during the latest upgrade of the plugin-parent I faced several issues with > the maven-eclipse-plugin. > It will take quite some time to fix these issues, but is it worth > maintaining it here? > Nowadays the Maven support for Eclipse is good and stable. > The maven-eclipse-plugin has a lot of integration tests which should be > rewritten, because it always launches a new Maven fork and it takes ages to > complete. This simply blocks good continuous integration of the plugins. > I know there are still some projects with can't use the Maven Integration > of Eclipse and depend on this plugin, so the sources need to stay available > for users so the can extend it for their own usage. > > I therefor propose that we retire maven-eclipse-plugin for the Apache > Maven project and donate it to the Mojohaus project > > If this vote is successful I will make one final release of the plugin, > making > it clear on the plugin site that it has been retired. After that the > source code > will be moved into the "retired" area in Subversion. > > The process for retiring a plugin is described here: > http://maven.apache.org/developers/retirement-plan-plugins.html > > The vote is open for 72 hours. > > [ ] +1 Yes, it's about time > [ ] -1 No, because... +1 It needs a new home where people can give it some love if they want to maintain it.
