> > notice that this will also impact all plugins: and given the few work done > > on > > plugins to clearly show what plugin version remains compatible with a JDK > > release, I feel we're not taking the topic the right way > > Can you detail it please? While we keep plugin-api java 8 compat - which is > not under discussion there - there is no more impact than today normally.
currently, if you are still using JDK 7 or even earlier (not a shame, just a necessity), it's easy to select latest compatible Maven release: https://maven.apache.org/docs/history.html What about using latest compatible plugins? It's where finding documentation starts to become hard: - each plugin has it public documentation showing only the latest JDK prerequisite - our consolidated view itself is just known from experts only: https://ci-maven.apache.org/job/Maven/job/maven-box/job/maven-dist-tool/job/master/site/dist-tool-prerequisites.html we added some time ago "System Requirements History" for that purpose = https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPLUGIN-400 for example, once a plugin has documented its history, you get: https://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/plugin-info.html#system-requirements Every plugin should document its system requirements history = we need to organise the work to make sure it's done in our own plugins: I did the job on a few ones, but it has to be generalised and I don't see anybody interested in doing the work (and I'm tired of doing myself the documentation cleanup on many aspects...) notice: now that I wrote that summary, I see we can: 1. add a check in dist-tool prerequisites report, to have a clear global view 2. add a check in DOCCK Maven Documentation Checker Plugin: it did not have any release for years, this will be a good reason to update it https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-docck-plugin/index.html https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MDOCCK-38 created Regards, Hervé --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
