Following up on that remark and my earlier remark that we should NOT make this official .. here are my remarks:
- so far the only binaries we assemble and call official are the tar.gz and zip archives (and even that is a gray line since official there are only sources from Apache) - we do NOT support (by calling them official) any other binaries such as - linux distro versions - osx package versions (brews, ports) - windows packages - sdkman - and many others - the complexity of the docker images is greater than any of the above since it includes those factors.. Here are a few issues why I would object to this being the official images - only openjdk and ibm java, no oracle java, no others such as Zulu or whatever - limited os selection (only alpine and debian and windows from what I can tell), no centos, no ubuntu - binaries are download from a mirror rather than the actual apache servers (alternatively maybe could use Central) These above factors imho show that there is a selection that has been made and I do not think we as the Apache Maven project should make this selection. As such I would suggest to keep it as is. An open source project from an individual that provides Maven binaries on Docker images. Just happens to be the case that the same person is also a Maven PMC (great btw!). If we make this part of the officially supplied binaries we could also think about - making binaries for various Linux distros in the first place (then we wouldnt even need docker images since it could be a one line to install an official Maven distro on them) - supplying binaries to SDKMan, ports, brew, chocolatey and so on - pull all mojohaus plugins into Apache (they are mostly the same committers..) - pull other Maven projects in as desired You see where this leads... a LOT of work. In my opinion as the Apache Maven project we should focus on just that. Maven itself, our current plugins and related projects. We all know thats already more work than we can reasonably shoulder.. I see no reason to add more. Manfred Carlos Sanchez wrote on 2017-10-21 03:59: > BTW there are possibly more than one image build for each maven version. > For a variety of reasons, like security issues in OS or to upgrade JDK or > because docker rebuilds it, so it is not feasible to vote each of them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
