On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 at 23:54, Eric Bresie <ebre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > May be moot at this time bug figured I’d chime in in this thread > > I think the mailing list may represent a small group of stakeholders but > may not truly reflect actual users not on the list. > > Looking on Stack Overflow…there are still questions being asked (as of end > of last year) does that not imply there are still users outside of this > mailing list? > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/maven-pdf-plugin > > Maybe a notice of the web page noting potential retirement may be a good > option as well. >
Sounds like a good idea. But please understand that the project is maintained by volunteers, so eventually, they can choose not to maintain some parts. But it's all open-source, and by the way, it has a very permissive license, which can help maintain it outside of Apache (except groupId/artifactId), which will need to be changed. > I disagree some about not discussing replacement (not the details per se). > If a product is discontinued and someone is still using it that may cause > them difficulties and need to know the alternative and the amount of time > and effort required to change over. > > In the end if it still available in the archives I assume those users may > be able to gain some access to it so maybe not the end of the world. > > Eric Bresie > ebre...@gmail.com > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM Arnaud Héritier <aherit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > +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 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
