There's very good BND plugin org.apache.felix:maven-bundle-plugin. +1 to retire and delete old https://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-osgi/ Cheers Tibor17
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 3:17 PM Robert Scholte <rfscho...@apache.org> wrote: > 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: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
