+1 Robert Scholte wrote on 2019-04-23 12:43:
> Hi, > > The Apache Maven project consist of about 100 (sub)projects. Due to the small > number of volunteers and the huge amount of code to maintain we're missing > enough space to make real progress on all these projects, including > our ambitious ideas for the next major version(s) of Maven itself. > To be able to gain more focus we need to criticize the current subprojects and > decide if it is worth maintaining. > > One of those subprojects is the maven-repository-plugin, last released on > February 22, 2015. It's main purpose: a plugin that can be used to create > bundles of artifacts that can be uploaded to the central repository. > Based on that it seems that the maven-assembly-plugin is a better fit for > that. > > I therefore propose that we retire the maven-repository-plugin. > > I don't think it makes sense to do a final release. Instead we should update > the documentation and the freeze the codebase. > > The process for retiring a plugin is described here: > https://maven.apache.org/developers/retirement-plan-plugins.html > > The vote is open for 72 hours. > > [ ] +1 Yes, it's about time > [ ] -1 No, because... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
