Now that Apache Maven PDF is retired, what other option do we have?
Thanks!!!
On 2025-03-08 8:53 a.m., Eric Bresie 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.
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
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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
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