A few of these sound like good ideas. A few would be actively harmful. Most are somewhere in the middle. But taking them as a group, what I see is a lot of ambition for new large scale projects that are completely beyond available developer bandwidth, and little focus on small improvements like fixing individual bugs.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 10:35 AM Gerd Aschemann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Following the successful first funding round through the Sovereign Tech > Fund <https://lists.apache.org/thread/hlwzwtwc09r5nh9jkq5dgpd39sjkxs09> ( > STF), we are preparing a second round of proposals for "Support & Care > for Apache Maven" (https://open-elements.com/support-care-maven/). > > We have created GitHub Discussions for our current 17 proposals for > community review and feedback: > [image: 35fabddf-8179-4196-abd8-b3fb4de01acb.png] > > support-and-care maven-support-and-care Ideas For Milestones · Discussions > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/categories/ideas-for-milestones?discussions_q=is%3Aopen+category%3A%22Ideas+for+Milestones%22+label%3ASTF-2.0> > github.com > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/categories/ideas-for-milestones?discussions_q=is%3Aopen+category%3A%22Ideas+for+Milestones%22+label%3ASTF-2.0> > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/categories/ideas-for-milestones?discussions_q=is%3Aopen+category%3A%22Ideas+for+Milestones%22+label%3ASTF-2.0> > > The proposals (currently) cover four categories: > > *Security* > > - SBOM and Security Scorecard Verification (#181 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/181> > ) > - New Frontend for Dependency-Track (#170 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/170> > ) > > *Maintenance* > > - Migration of JUnit 4/5 Based Tests to JUnit 6 (#173 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/173> > ) > - Migrate All Apache Plugins to Maven 4 APIs (#179 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/179> > ) > - Surefire JUnit Platform Migration (#182 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/182> > ) > > *Modernization* > > - Build Observability and Reporting (#168 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/168> > ) > - Dependency Hash Verification (#169 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/169> > ) > - Logging and Tracing Policy for Maven (#174 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/174> > ) > - Maven Initializer V2 (#175 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/175> > ) > - MCP Support for Apache Maven (#177 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/177> > ) > - Test Fixtures Best Practice for Maven 4 (#183 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/183> > ) > - Global Dependency Replacements (#172 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/172> > ) > > *Documentation* > > - GitHub/Codeberg Pages Hosting for Maven Sites (#171 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/171> > ) > - Update Look and Feel of Generated Maven Sites (#176 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/176> > ) > - Modern Landing Page for Maven Homepage (#178 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/178> > ) > - Support Versions in Hosted Maven Sites (#184 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/184> > ) > - Rich Reporting for Important Plugins (#180 > > <https://github.com/support-and-care/maven-support-and-care/discussions/180> > ) > > Please review and comment directly on the GitHub Discussions. Additional > ideas and proposals are more than welcome! We would like to finalize the > proposals by the end of the month. > > If you want to contribute to any of the proposals or have ideas for new > items, please join the discussion or reach out to us. > > Cheers, Gerd > -- > Gerd Aschemann --- Veröffentlichen heißt Verändern (Carmen Thomas) > +49/173/3264070 -- [email protected] -- http://www.aschemann.net > > -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [email protected]
