Nonsense. It is common sense that most criminal acts are spawned from within 
the local network, due to social engineering.
-Markus


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Von: Som Lima [mailto:[email protected]] 
Gesendet: Sonntag, 28. März 2021 15:06
An: Maven Developers List
Betreff: Re: [DISCUSS] Next release version: 3.6.4, 3.7.0, 3.8.0 or other

> BTW there should be an option to still use unsecure http as many people
run http in their LANs.

I could be wrong but I think the intranet is a tightly coupled  comm system
therefore it is secure by design.



On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, 13:31 Markus KARG, <[email protected]> wrote:

> We should not do any tricks or unexpected behavior but just stick with
> SemVer.
> If there is a need for a security fix, it has to be 3.6.4 and BTW there
> should be an option to still use unsecure http as many people run http in
> their LANs.
> If it contains backwards-compatible features, it has to be 3.7.0.
> If it breaks backwards-compatibility, it has to be 4.0.0.
> In no case it can be 3.8.0.
> If mvnw was proposed for 3.7 but is not here now, then we either have to
> wait with 3.7.0, or we have to tell people that we move mvnw to 3.8 or 4.0.
> I do not see a need for any discussion at all, as SemVer is pretty clear
> about the sole correct answer.
> -Markus
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Romain Manni-Bucau [mailto:[email protected]]
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 28. März 2021 11:47
> An: Maven Developers List
> Betreff: [DISCUSS] Next release version: 3.6.4, 3.7.0, 3.8.0 or other
>
> Hi all,
>
> Before we reroll the failed 3.8.0 I'd like we discuss openly the next
> versioning since it seems we didn't reach a consensus yet and trying to not
> create too much friction for users and in the community.
>
> As a reminder the only feature the release will get is to prevent HTTP repo
> (in favor of HTTPS ones). In that regard it is a breaking change if users
> rely on HTTP repo but a security fix (I don't come back on the HTTP ->
> HTTPS move IT ecosystem got recently here).
>
> So it seems there are multiple versioning options:
>
> 1. 3.6.4: seems natural since it is a security fix, enables companies to
> get this fix respecting a project versioning policy without having to
> upgrade and avoids us to have to maintain 3.6 + 3.7/3.8 and soon 4.x.
> Indeed it requires a very well documented paragraph about this change and
> how to workaround it (local proxy/mirror is a trivial one for example) but
> it will be the case whatever version we pick anyway IMHO.
> 2. 3.7.0: since it is a breaking change it can seem natural too (but has
> the pitfall to likely require a backport in 3.6 anyway, due to the
> versioning policies which can prevent some users to upgrade to a 3.7)
> 3. 3.8.0: was the vote, seems the rational was that originally we
> targetting mvnw in 3.7 and since we didn't make it 3.8 was used. Have to
> admit I'm not sure of this reasoning more than that (cause for me if we
> don't have a planned feature we can either try to push/wait for it or
> postpone it but not skip a version due to that) so if anyone wants to
> complete the reasoning here it would be great.
>
> Indeed my preference is for 3.6.4 which has the most advantages for
> everyone and no additional drawbacks compared to 3.7 or 3.8 options until
> we try to push to get mvnw in which would mean 3.7 becomes more natural
> (and likely imply a 3.6.x maintenance version).
>
> Goal of this thread is to feel the overall trend and see if we can refine
> the proposals (for example: can we drop 3.8 one and only keep 3.7 and 3.6
> or - best - can we refine it to a single version after some exchanges).
> If we keep a few proposals after some days, what about a vote where the
> majority wins - we would just need to define how we count,
> bindings/committers/all (my preference being last one indeed)?
>
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