in preparation of a new sling starter release, I discovered that we currently have 10 archetypes [1] and 1 archetype-parent github projects.
only one archetype is currently actively maintained, the sling-project-archetype [2]. the others, although partially mentioned on our documentation page [3], are not actively touched since 2015/2018, except sling-content-package-archetype [4] which was added in 2020 but also did not get any love since them. having archetypes to start a new project is great - but starting a new project with dependencies that are more than 5 years old and often using outdated patterns and tooling is very counterproductive. so, also after as short discussion with robert, I propose to: 1. mark all archetype repos from [1] (including sling-archetype-parent, but excluding sling-project-archetype) as deprecated and do not touch them any longer 2. replace the documentation page [3] with a link to the only remaining archetype [2] Please vote to approve this proposal: [ ] +1 Approve the release [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Don't release, because ... This majority vote is open for at least 72 hours. stefan [1] https://github.com/orgs/apache/repositories?language=&q=sling+archetype+sort%3Aname-asc&sort=&type=all [2] https://github.com/apache/sling-project-archetype [3] https://sling.apache.org/documentation/development/maven-archetypes.html [4] https://github.com/apache/sling-content-package-archetype
