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 Runtime library has been released 3 times, the last time was May 2012
for version 1.0-alpha-3. According to
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.maven.shared/maven-runtime
[https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.maven.shared/maven-runtime] this
library is only used in 4 projects.
The main purpose of the library is reading the pom.properties or pom.xml from
an artifact to get the version. This functionality works so the library can be
considered finished.
See https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-runtime/
[https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-runtime/]
I therefore propose that we retire the maven-runtime.
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...
