you're focusing on Maven core only I'm talking about Maven = core + plugins
and on Maven core, 3.9 and master are for new features, 3.8 is a stabilisation branch only (bugfixes) = the intent of initial message from Tamas older releases are stable: yes, we don't expect fixes because they are considered stable does stable mean EOL? no, because it would mean that we only support unstable versions of Maven core ----- Mail original ----- De: "Slawomir Jaranowski" <s.jaranow...@gmail.com> À: "Maven Developers List" <dev@maven.apache.org> Envoyé: Dimanche 10 Avril 2022 21:20:33 Objet: Re: We need to lay down strategy our CI has running build for branches: - master - 3.9.x - 3.8.x It is only versions for which we can do changes, for others we simply don't have running infrastructure, so the rest of the versions should be officially mentioned as EOL. To be clear we also should add information what kind of change will be accepted for specific version, like: 3.8.x, 3.9.x only critical regression bugs as Tamás mentions niedz., 10 kwi 2022 o 19:59 Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> napisał(a): > Le dimanche 10 avril 2022, 09:56:46 CEST Michael Osipov a écrit : > > Am 2022-04-10 um 09:10 schrieb Hervé BOUTEMY: > > > > >> I think that the truth is that versions less than 3.8.x are also EOL. > > > > > > no > > > please read the EOL message we took a lot of discussion to define for > > > Maven > 3.0.x: > > > "Maven 3.0 has now reached its end of life. New plugin releases will > > > require > Maven 3.1 or later." > > > > > > yes, the definition of what "EOL" and "supported" mean for a project > like > > > ours > is not so easy: finding the right message is not easy > > > > > > But I don't think that this is the full truth. > > What we actually do is to compile against a specific Maven version, but > > only test latest. I don't expect that everyone tests with 3.1.x, 3.2.x > > and so it -- I don't and will not. > 1. our CI tests quite a good number of situations: we don't expect manual > test > from every committer > 2. even if we don't fully test every detailed situation, we defined our > minimum > required Maven version to show that we support these situation > 3. if you go that route, please define what support means given our OSS > nature > > let's be reasonable at every level > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Sławomir Jaranowski --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
