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
>
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