+1 - never used it myself and no one in the workplace I knew of (I am the Maven-expert here)
Mit freundlichen Grüßen Mirko Friedenhagen — > Am 17.02.2025 um 07:39 schrieb Hervé Boutemy <herve.bout...@free.fr>: > > +1 too complex for too low usage > > thanks > > Hervé > > Le mercredi 12 février 2025, 19:59:19 CET Matthias Bünger a écrit : >> Hi all, >> some months ago, we noticed that the regular build of the Maven PDF >> plugin broke, because the plugin is not compatible to Doxia 2.0.0 (also >> see MPDF-112). >> The question raised, if we should retrie the PDF plugin. >> >> Some information: >> Last version, 1.6.1, was released in August 2022. However almost all PR >> of this plugin since 2020 were dependency updates brought up by >> dependabot. So you could argue that the plugin is somehow "dead". >> >> Monthly downloads of ALL versions were around 43.000 over the last year, >> with a peak in October and November reaching 57.000 downloads. However >> since December it crashed down to 17.000 downloads according to central >> stats. >> If we look at the last version, the monthly downloads raised from 19.000 >> in February 2024 to a peak of 33.500 in October. Since December they are >> down to 11.000 downloads per month, which are roughly 65% of all >> downloads of the plugin. >> >> As a comparison: The total number of downloads of the Maven compiler >> plugin (which ofc is a core plugin) is almost 32,5 million per months >> (almost 42 million in October 2024, but the mentioned "crash" in >> December is noticeable throughout all plugins. >> >> -------- >> So I want to start the discussion by asking: Who is using the pdf >> plugin? Did you switch to other tools for generating documentation (for >> example ASCII Doc [plugin])? What do you think about archiving the PDF >> plugin? >> >> What do you think? >> >> Matthias >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
