Uhm, I have definitely gotten pushback when I ported some changes back to the 3.8.x branch. The wording was (paraphrasing) "maven 3.8 is dead and we do not plan to do any further releases, so don't add code to it". This was with Maven 3.8.4 :-)
-h On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 3:37 AM Guillaume Nodet <gno...@apache.org> wrote: > Le mer. 31 mai 2023 à 12:28, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> a écrit > : > > > On 2023/05/31 10:03:34 Guillaume Nodet wrote: > > > Le mer. 31 mai 2023 à 11:21, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> a > > écrit : > > > > > > > > I think with those improvements, requiring JDK 17 for master should > > be > > > > > doable. Any concerns of suggestions ? > > > > > > > > I am against this. There are enough people who cannot move to Java 17 > > for > > > > a plethora of reasons regardless of Toolchains support. We provide a > > low > > > > level tool and it should have a low barrier to use. Maven 4 should be > > used > > > > as a transitional version to 5 to cut old ties and solve many issues > -- > > > > even if we are in alpha phase now. > > > > I bet many people will stick for 3.9.x or even 3.8.x for the years to > > come. > > > > > > > > > > I don't get the argument here. If people can stick with old versions > of > > > maven, this is actually an argument for moving the next releases > forward, > > > because that won't be a problem for them. > > > > If Maven 4 will be the only option for them since 3.x won't be maintained > > anymore then this is a problem for many. > > > > Who said so ? If there's a need and will to maintain the 3.x branch, so be > it. No one is forbidden to work on those branches. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > -- > ------------------------ > Guillaume Nodet >
