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mebigfatguy / fb-contrib

a FindBugs/SpotBugs plugin for doing static code analysis for java code bases
http://fb-contrib.sf.net
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Why not just rename repo to 'sb-contrib' and stop deploying 'fb-contrib' #452

Closed hazendaz closed 11 months ago

hazendaz commented 12 months ago

@mebigfatguy

findbugs itself is dead now for 8 years. spotbugs successfully 100% replaced it. It feels a little silly to me to still see fb-contrib getting released along side sb-contrib. I think its time to retire fb-contrib. Plus I imagine that would make things a bit easier since it managed on 2 branches. WDYT?

mebigfatguy commented 12 months ago

october downloads from maven ~20k for spotbugs ~8k for findbugs

not quite dead yet.

hazendaz commented 12 months ago

I get the same findings on repos I support and I dropped old support. Some people just don't upgrade their software. If you released fb-contrib again with a relocation pom in it, that might make those that are not using right one change. Of course I don't think I did that with spotbugs maven plugin either and not sure it was done at all with spotbugs. I also don't recall how difficult that is to do to central and many times I've seen that land with more problems. It is quite surprising that folks are still using the fb based version for such a long time at this point but then again maybe they just don't know to rename this one.

Has that number been at least decreasing?

mebigfatguy commented 12 months ago

surprisingly the downloads for fb-contrib are pretty flat month on month.

hazendaz commented 12 months ago

ok sounds like they do need a relocation pom.

ThrawnCA commented 11 months ago

Sometimes projects just remain untouched for years on the principle of If It Ain't Broke...