Hi Maven devs, We're now near the objective [1]
On 49 plugins, 37 reached the target (with m-pmd-p requiring Java 6 instead of 5) and 2 already jumped to Maven 3.0 requirement And maven-stage-plugin is on vote = 40 from 49: more than 80% of the job is done, great! Thank you to those who worked on this, particularly Karl Heinz who did a great part of it. This lets 9 plugins to release: - maven-scm-plugin - maven-docck-plugin - maven-jar-plugin - maven-patch-plugin - maven-verifier-plugin - maven-archetype-plugin - maven-eclipse-plugin - maven-compiler-plugin - maven-doap-plugin Are there volunteers on each one, please? IMHO, we should write down the list of plugins and versions to the Maven 2 EOL page [2], to clearly store this info while it is available (copy/pasting the report) and link to versioned documentation of every plugin: if no objection, I'll do it in a few days. I think that we should also have a convention on each plugin (and perhaps each component) to document requirements history: I have no precise idea on the way to do that. Addition to plugin-info.html (with parameters in pom.xml)? Add a standard paragraph in index.html (and update maven-docck-plugin to check for it)? Any idea? Then we'll be able to upgrade to Maven 3.0 and Java 6 requirements in parent pom. And of course announce to users the plan towards plugins 3.x for Maven 3.0 and JDK 6 requirement (and remember full Maven 2.x EOL, that is not only Maven, but also plugins). Really good job: this gives a great consistency step that was lacking before. Regards, Hervé [1] https://builds.apache.org/view/M-R/view/Maven/job/dist-tool-plugin/site/dist-tool-prerequisites.html [2] http://maven.apache.org/maven-2.x-eol.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
