Hi community, I just want to share this idea, maybe it is silly but why not talk about it. We have tens of plugins, most of them are rarely updated and released.
So it happens that users contribute patches in order to fix real problems but they have to wait an indefinite time before seeing the fix released, because we are not doing a release just for one issue. Another problem is that making a release is quite an heavyweight task: - update parent pom, update dependencies.... - stage a release.... - make the VOTE, wait, make at least 3 PMC vote.. - finalize... What about creating some maven-ext-plugins git repository with a parent and reactor pom and move all of those plugins that are really never released? I am thinking to side plugins like jdeps, checkstyle, pmd, enforcer....not compiler, assembly, surefire... If we merge them into one single code base we can: - have releases for all of them, even with some minimal (but blocker) fix - save time and resources (one committer does the work once and PMC votes only once, and we release 10 or more plugins...) We could even think to time based release schedule I image the big work you did for splitting all of the 100 git repositories from svn....but I think this move can give more vitality to the project We would have to think about jira, websites....I know it won't be easy Best regards Enrico
