From users-return-144206-archive-asf-public=cust-asf.ponee.io@maven.apache.org Fri Aug 23 13:17:27 2019 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-asf-public@cust-asf.ponee.io Delivered-To: archive-asf-public@cust-asf.ponee.io Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [207.244.88.153]) by mx-eu-01.ponee.io (Postfix) with SMTP id 38D64180637 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:17:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 59667 invoked by uid 500); 23 Aug 2019 13:17:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@maven.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Maven Users List" Reply-To: "Maven Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list users@maven.apache.org Received: (qmail 59639 invoked by uid 99); 23 Aug 2019 13:17:24 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO mailrelay1-lw-us.apache.org) (10.10.3.159) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:17:24 +0000 Received: from desktop-2khsk44.mshome.net (94-214-185-144.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [94.214.185.144]) by mailrelay1-lw-us.apache.org (ASF Mail Server at mailrelay1-lw-us.apache.org) with ESMTPSA id C0F3458B5; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:17:23 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:17:23 +0200 To: "Apache Maven Dev" Cc: "Apache Maven Users" Subject: [VOTE] Retire Maven OSGi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Robert Scholte" Organization: Apache Software Foundation Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.18 (Win64) Hi, The Apache Maven project consist of about 90 (sub)projects. Due to the small number of volunteers and the huge amount of code to maintain we're missing enough space to make real progress on all these projects, including our ambitious ideas for the next major version(s) of Maven itself. To be able to gain more focus we need to criticize the current subprojects and decide if it is worth maintaining. https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-osgi/ describes the main purpose in one line: Library for Maven-OSGi integration. There have been only 2 releases: 0.1.0 in July 2007 and 0.2.0 in December 2007 and just one open issue by Stuart McCulloch regarding an unclosed jar. It is unclear to me if this library is still used. The library is based on just 3 files: interface, default implementation and dedicated exception. Either the library is complete or never used anymore. In both cases I see no real reason to maintain it. I therefore propose that we retire the maven-osgi library. I don't think it makes sense to do a final release. Instead we should update the documentation and freeze the codebase. The process for retiring a plugin is described here: https://maven.apache.org/developers/retirement-plan-plugins.html [https://maven.apache.org/developers/retirement-plan-plugins.html] The vote is open for 72 hours. [ ] +1 Yes, it's about time [ ] -1 No, because... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@maven.apache.org