+1 > On 7 Jun 2019, at 14:34, Tibor Digana <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 3:32 PM Robert Scholte <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The Apache Maven project consist of about 90 (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. >> >> https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-downloader/ [ >> https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-downloader/] describes the main >> purpose in one line: Provide a super simple interface for downloading a >> single artifact. Well, right now the preferred library to do so is either >> maven-resolver or maven-artifact-transfer. >> There have been only 2 releases, the last one was in December 2006. >> >> I therefore propose that we retire the maven-downloader. >> >> I don't think it makes sense to do a final release. Instead we should >> update the documentation and 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... >> >> >> >>
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