Shepherd Protobuf Maven plugin

[laurentgo]

What language does this apply to?
Not really a language but specific for Apache Maven build tool.

Describe the problem you are trying to solve.

People using protobuf in their Maven project rely on org.xolstice.maven.plugins:protobuf-maven-plugin to generate source files based on their protocol buffers definitions.

Overall the plugin works well and has very few issues. Thanks to the release of protoc artifacts by the protocol buffer release team into Maven Central, there's no be problem using the plugin with the latest versions of protobuf.

But the maintainer of the project mentioned he is no longer interested in maintaining the plugin.

Describe the solution you'd like

Considering the importance of the plugin for many projects (and the lack of alternatives), I would want it to be integrated directly into the protocolbuffers umbrella (or maybe similarly to the gradle plugin, to be backed up by Google?)

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Taking over the plugin myself, but would ran into the same problem of critical project maintained by a single person
• Proposing a new plugin from scratch directly within the protocolbuffers project.

Additional context
None

[JHahnHRO]

I've searched for a while for a replacement of the similar plugin https://github.com/os72/protoc-jar-maven-plugin, because that too seems to be abandoned.

[zhangskz]

This is on our radar, but unfortunately not something we are equipped to staff directly at the moment.

[laurentgo]

Is it something community could help with?

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[laurentgo]

Any update?

[zhangskz]

We don't have any updates unfortunately regarding the ability to staff this on our side, but we would welcome community efforts here.

We did recently receive #16656 for https://github.com/ascopes/protobuf-maven-plugin which seems to be a new community contributed alternative that may help here. Note as with most projects on our third party add-ons page, these are not affiliated / endorsed by Google.

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