Re: Clarification on an end-version/end-date for maven plugins' support of JDK 1.7

2021-06-14 Thread Hervé BOUTEMY
there is a broader plan that tries to be documented at https://maven.apache.org/developers/compatibility-plan.html but given each plugin has its own lifecycle, without precise release schedule, and voluntary work, it is followed at a "soft" speed I know that one of my personal dreams on this wou

Re: Clarification on an end-version/end-date for maven plugins' support of JDK 1.7

2021-06-09 Thread Patty Mele
I am confused are you an author? Patty On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 11:43 PM Rick Hanton wrote: > Thanks for the help and input Tamas and Ben! > > Yes, I wasn't demanding or expecting anything, just was curious if there > was some broader "plan", but it sounds like it's up to the individual > maintai

Re: Clarification on an end-version/end-date for maven plugins' support of JDK 1.7

2021-06-09 Thread Benjamin Marwell
By this time, you are probably not able to fix security holes. All common libraries out there are are already Java 8. Just calculate how much a total loss will cost due to security holes or data loss, vs the cost of upgrading. That should work. 😉 Ben On Wed, 9 Jun 2021, 08:43 Rick Hanton, wrote

Re: Clarification on an end-version/end-date for maven plugins' support of JDK 1.7

2021-06-08 Thread Rick Hanton
Thanks for the help and input Tamas and Ben! Yes, I wasn't demanding or expecting anything, just was curious if there was some broader "plan", but it sounds like it's up to the individual maintainers, which is fine. We too were hoping that our operations folks would get all the web application ser

Re: Clarification on an end-version/end-date for maven plugins' support of JDK 1.7

2021-06-08 Thread Benjamin Marwell
Just FYI, IBM, Zulu, Oracle and Microsoft are giving extended support to paying customers until the 2030s. I guess maven plugins will stay on 1.8 for quite a while, but that's just a guess. At least most libraries haven't moved to Java 11 yet (and afaik won't move to Java 11 in the near future).

Re: Clarification on an end-version/end-date for maven plugins' support of JDK 1.7

2021-06-07 Thread Tamás Cservenák
Howdy, Let me state several things in advance first: - ASF Maven project (the project) is an open source project maintained by volunteers in their spare time. - We (as a project) do not provide any kind of "support" or any of that stuff. That said, Java 7 is EOLd in 2015, while Java 8 is EOLd in

Clarification on an end-version/end-date for maven plugins' support of JDK 1.7

2021-06-07 Thread Rick Hanton
Hi folks, Just wondering if someone can point me to any documentation about one of the following things: 1) Is there a high level direction among apache projects and particularly apache maven plugin projects to no longer build using the version 1.7 JDK? I'm seeing similar changes to move away fro