What does it mean for the project to "retire... and donate [the plugin] to the Mojohaus project"? The plugin will still be available, but not maintained by Apache Maven?
Unless there is a satisfactory replacement for eclim, I'm stuck with eclipse... -C On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Andrew Wang <andrew.w...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I happened to see this on the maven list, looks like the Maven eclipse > plugin (aka "eclipse:eclipse") is being retired. > > Our BUILDING.txt still mentions running the "eclipse:eclipse" goal. Has > anyone tried alternative ways of importing Hadoop into Eclipse? Seems like > a good time to update our instructions. > > I've switched over to IDEA so this doesn't really affect me, but I'm happy > to test and update the Eclipse instructions if someone provides them. > > Best, > Andrew > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Robert Scholte <rfscho...@apache.org> > Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:06 AM > Subject: [RESULT] [VOTE] Retire Maven Eclipse Plugin / Donation to Mojohaus > To: Maven Developers List <d...@maven.apache.org> > Cc: Maven Users List <us...@maven.apache.org>, Maven Project Management > Committee List <priv...@maven.apache.org> > > > Hi, > > The vote has passed with the following result: > > +1 (binding): Barrie Treloar, Arnaud Héritier, Tamás Cservenák, Dennis > Lundberg, Hervé BOUTEMY, Olivier Lamy, Karl Heinz Marbaise, Kristian > Rosenvold, Jason van Zyl, Robert Scholte > +1 (non binding): Tibor Digana, Anders Hammar, Michael Osipov, Andreas > Gudian > +0.5 (non binding): Baptiste Mathus > > thanks for the huge number of votes!! > > I will continue with the steps required to retire this plugin. > > Robert > > Op Sun, 04 Oct 2015 11:18:55 +0200 schreef Robert Scholte < > rfscho...@apache.org>: > > Hi, >> >> during the latest upgrade of the plugin-parent I faced several issues with >> the maven-eclipse-plugin. >> It will take quite some time to fix these issues, but is it worth >> maintaining it here? >> Nowadays the Maven support for Eclipse is good and stable. >> The maven-eclipse-plugin has a lot of integration tests which should be >> rewritten, because it always launches a new Maven fork and it takes ages to >> complete. This simply blocks good continuous integration of the plugins. >> I know there are still some projects with can't use the Maven Integration >> of Eclipse and depend on this plugin, so the sources need to stay available >> for users so the can extend it for their own usage. >> >> I therefor propose that we retire maven-eclipse-plugin for the Apache >> Maven project and donate it to the Mojohaus project >> >> If this vote is successful I will make one final release of the plugin, >> making >> it clear on the plugin site that it has been retired. After that the >> source code >> will be moved into the "retired" area in Subversion. >> >> The process for retiring a plugin is described here: >> http://maven.apache.org/developers/retirement-plan-plugins.html >> >> The vote is open for 72 hours. >> >> [ ] +1 Yes, it's about time >> [ ] -1 No, because... >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
