Hi all, given recent security fixes that landed in OpenNLP's main branch and the request for back porting these changes to the very oldskoolish 1.9.x line [1], the people involved noticed that the efforts to maintain three separate version lines along the road were pretty high and resource consuming.
Therefore, I'd like to propose to (finally) declare Apache OpenNLP 1.9.x EOL publicly via a News announcement on the project's website. Primary questions: (a) Do we have consensus that such an EOL announcement is long overdue and should be put out rather soonish? (b) Time of the announcement: Options that I see: - b1: Directly with the projected release of the 1.9.5, marking it as the last release ever to be expected for OpenNLP 1.x. - b2: Shortly after - with a grace period - for instance End of July 2026, or similar short ranged targets. - b3: End of year 2026, that is Dec 31, 2026 (c) Are there any requirements by the ASF to put out an EOL announcement? Jeff, do you have infos about it? Open for others to add thoughts and related aspects to this discussion. Please share your opinions and provide (your) answers to question (a) to (c). Best Martin | mawiesne -- [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/nvzl4g2b6rc149nf54xpnorjso5h0mlp
