On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 1:50 PM Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> wrote:
> Am 2019-12-14 um 12:31 schrieb Karl Heinz Marbaise: > > Hi, > > > > based on the history we have defined Maven 2.X EoL five years after the > > last release...[1] > > > > Based on that I would suggest to define End Of Life for the following > > Maven versions cause their release date is also five years ago... > > > > > > Maven 3.0.5...3.2.5 included. > > > > We have never backported some things in the last five year... > > > > WDYT? > > That sounds like a plan, but not honest enough. If we include 3.3.9 and > 3.5.4 we ultimately say that we still support this and patch it. But we > don't! In tickets we require always to try to the latest version. > > What I would see as honest is that we would support 3.6.x with bugfixes > for some amount of time and have a line moving forward, 3.7.x. > Everything else is just a lie. > +1. Setting clear expectations is better than letting people live with their (false) hopes. > > Michael > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse Team