+1 Even if I was the maintainer of the maven 1 version 20 years ago, I don't really see the value nowadays. Sites are already less used than in the past, the need to export in PDF seems very limited today
Arnaud Héritier GitHub/ASF/... : aheritier On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM Mirko Friedenhagen <mfriedenha...@gmx.de.invalid> wrote: > +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 > >
