+1 /Anders (mobile)
Den ons 8 maj 2019 20:25Robert Scholte <rfscho...@apache.org> skrev: > 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. > > The Maven Artifact Resolution API (maven-artifact-resolver) is a shared > component that could be used to easily resolve Maven project dependencies. > The last (and only) released version is 1.0 in September 2009.( > https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-artifact-resolver/ [ > https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-artifact-resolver/] ). > This library should not be confused with Artifact Resolver > (maven-resolver), previously known as Aether. As you can see the naming > will cause confusion. > The library that aims the same goal for Artifact Resolver is another > shared component called maven-artifact-transfer (which by now is not just > the transfer part or Artifact Resolver, but a bridge for both Sonatype > Aether as used in Maven 3.0.x and Eclipse Aether as used in Maven 3.1.x+. > This way Maven plugins and extensions can be compatible with any Maven 3 > release) > > I therefore propose that we retire the maven-artifact-resolver. > > 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 [ > 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...