Hi, I'm cancelling this vote because it has received no votes in three weeks.
Thanks, Fridrich, for pointing at maven-bundle-plugin. It keeps working after retirement, because 3.3.0 stays on Maven Central. Sylwester On Tue, Oct 06, 2026 08:05 AM, Fridrich Strba <[email protected]> wrote: > Another consumer is maven-bundle-plugin > > > https://github.com/apache/felix-dev/blob/master/tools/maven-bundle-plugin/pom.xml#L234 > > Cheers > > Fridrich > > On 05/10/2026 23:37, Sylwester Lachiewicz wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Maven Dependency Tree builds a project's dependency graph, including the > > verbose graph with conflict losers and pre-managed versions, by wrapping > > Maven Resolver. Resolver now exposes all of that directly, so the wrapper > > no longer adds value. > > > > Its last two Maven consumers have moved off it: > > > > - maven-dependency-plugin: (MDEP-969, > > https://github.com/apache/maven-dependency-plugin/pull/1712) > > - maven-project-info-reports-plugin: (MPIR-458, > > https://github.com/apache/maven-project-info-reports-plugin/pull/670) > > > > Both changes are merged and will ship in dependency-plugin 3.12.0 and > > project-info-reports 3.10.0. No other Apache Maven component depends on > it. > > > > Outside Maven, a GitHub code search of default branches finds usage in > > Camel, camel-kafka-connector, camel-spring-boot, Felix > maven-bundle-plugin, > > NetBeans, NiFi Maven, PLC4X, IoTDB, iotdb-extras, TsFile, and Meecrowave. > > Retiring it will not break these projects: version 3.3.0 will remain on > > Maven Central, and > > https://github.com/apache/maven-dependency-tree/issues/150 describes > how to > > call Resolver directly instead. > > > > While the git history shows 31 commits since 3.3.0 (May 2024)—including > 21 > > this year—9 of those are Dependabot commits, reflecting routine > maintenance > > rather than new feature development. > > > > I therefore propose that we retire maven-dependency-tree. > > > > If this vote passes, I will make one final release, explicitly noting the > > retirement on the component site, and then archive the source code > > repository (making it read-only). > > > > The component retirement process is detailed here: > > https://maven.apache.org/developers/retirement-plan-plugins.html > > > > This vote will remain open for 72 hours. > > > > [ ] +1 Yes, it's about time > > [ ] -1 No, because... > > > > Best regards, > > Sylwester > > > >
