Chiming in late since I remember we discussed this before. Here is my view.
All releases beyond the most recent one are essentially end of lifed. We never backport, we have no explicit support and whenever we fix something it goes into the next release. That is what we concluded last time and that is the reason why the download page only offers the latest version. Anything else is misleading our users with some sort of support or guarantee that things continue to work and are tested when really they are not. Of course we make a best effort to keep things smooth ... but thats really where it ends. Manfred Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote on 2019-12-16 12:57 (GMT -08:00): > On 15.12.19 12:14, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: >> Tentative +1. >> >> Is there any reason we would ever backport a fix to 3.0 or 3.2? E.g. >> this was the last release to support Java 1.6. > > Unfortunately my crystal ball is under repair...I can't see into the > future... > > I would say if we a really bad security issue would could decide to do a > backport for older releases...But based on the history I know and can > read through the mailing archives it has not happened yet... > > > >> >> Or would we simply tell users to upgrade to 3.6.3? >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 6:31 AM Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> based on the history we have defined Maven 2.X EoL five years after the >>> last release...[1] >>> >>> Based on that I would suggest to define End Of Life for the following >>> Maven versions cause their release date is also five years ago... >>> >>> >>> Maven 3.0.5...3.2.5 included. >>> >>> We have never backported some things in the last five year... >>> >>> WDYT? >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Karl Heinz Marbaise >>> >>> >>> [1]: https://maven.apache.org/docs/history.html#Maven_2 >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
