For discussion... and tearing into... and Chris shouting out that IBM supports Java 6 for yonks...
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Version+number+policy I think we need a version policy and the best way to get one is to put a draft together and let people edit it to something that we all can be happy with. Constructive feedback welcome... in fact committers editing the doc is encouraged... Please leave the DRAFT heading at the top. If a consensus emerges we will have a vote and put the resulting policy on the project site as opposed to a draft document on the wiki. -Stephen