Dropping Hibernate 3.x support from 2.13.0 of `jackson-datatype-hibernate`?

[Tatu Saloranta]

Quick question: would anyone be AGAINST dropping support for Hibernate
3 (variant "jackson-datatype-hiberanate3") from Jackson 2.13 release?
This would leave Hibernate 4.x and 5.x variants still available for
Jackson 2.x (Jackson 3.0 is still open due to lack of maintainers for
these modules).

The reason I think it makes sense to drop this is because:

1. Code across H3, H4, H5 is not shared (i.e. we have 3 copies)
2. Where as H4 and H5 code is almost identical, supporting same
features, H3 is missing a few things (since they don't exist in
Hibernate 3.x, at least in same form, as later versions)
3. By download/usage metrics, about no one anywhere uses this module variant :)

But I thought I'll ask first before removing this module from 2.13,
just in case.

-+ Tatu +-

[Tatu Saloranta]

Have not heard anyone objecting so will proceed on dropping support as proposed.

-+ Tatu +-