Re: [VOTE] Retire maven-doxia-book-maven-plugin

Karl Heinz Marbaise <[email protected]> Mon, 18 May 2026 20:55:36 +0200
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+1 from me

Kind regards
Karl Heinz Marbaise
On 17.05.26 12:29, Matthias Bünger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The "maven-doxia-book-maven-plugin" [1] has not received any functional 
> change since years (only things like upgrading parent versions etc.). 
> The related "maven-doxia-book-renderer" [2] got retired in September 2025.
> 
> I therefore propose that we retire maven-doxia-book-maven-plugin.
> I would like to skip doing a final retirement release as it seems that 
> there was never one. The lists of git tags is empty and neither 
> "https://central.sonatype.com/" nor "https://mvnrepository.com/repos/ 
> central" list this plugin, when you search for the artifact ID.
> Therefore I would only update the GitHub repository, related sites and 
> after that ask INFRA to archive it.
> 
> 
> If this vote is successful I will do the steps mentioned above, making
> it clear on the plugin site that it has been retired. After that the 
> source code
> repository will get archived, meaning it's read only in the future.
> 
> The process for retiring a plugin is described here:
> https://maven.apache.org/developers/retirement-plan-plugins.html
> 
> The vote is open for 72 hours.
> 
> [ ] +1 Yes, it's about time
> [ ] -1 No, because...
> 
> -- 
> Matthias
> 
> [1] https://github.com/apache/maven-doxia-book-maven-plugin
> [2] https://github.com/apache/maven-doxia-book-renderer
>