Awesome! Thank you very much for the summary.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@takari.io> wrote: > Here's a short summary of yesterdays discussion: > > --- > > Manfred Moser > > 1) Alternative verifier use in maven-android-plugin for testing. Igor > created an alternative verifier for use inside of M2E for integration > testing that allows an integration test to be run from within Eclipse > without having to install the plugin. The alternative verifier also allows > multiple invocations with different versions of Maven. So if you want to > test a plugin against 3.1.1 and 3.2.1, for example, this would be possible. > This code will be released in the next few weeks. Manfred is attempting to > remove the use of the maven-testing-harness in the maven-android-plugin > with this new technique for integration testing. > > 2) New repository populator that takes a set of dependency coordinates, > calculates the transitive hull and publishes them to a remote repository. > This is a tool that uses Aether. Not sure what Manfreds plans are for > releasing this or if it's already available. Manfred can speak to this as > he wishes. > > Hervé Boutemy > > 1) Continued work on the Checkstyle setup for Maven projects. A nice way > is being developed that doesn't force conformance to all rules at once. > Rules can be selectively turned off so that adherence to the rules can be > met over time without a huge disruption. Hervé is continuing to test the > setup with various Maven projects and the current plan is to release this > new setup in about a month. > > Mark Derricutt > > 1) Tiles plugin work is progressing and a release is planned shortly after > some repository cleanup work. The Tiles plugin is a prototype version of a > type of mixin for Maven. Some work needs to be done to sort out the proper > merging of the models, and there may be other things Mark wants to explain > but we'll likely see something soon. > > Jason van Zyl > > 1) Work on the JSR330 branch has 4 ITs failing, but this is due to some > movement of deprecated code that I will have to revert. While doing the > JSR330 work some investigation was done on removing maven-compat and there > are some issues that need to be resolved. Trying to fully remove Plexus > with JSR330 and get rid of maven-compat is an attempt at something that > will resemble Maven 4. To make this work quite a bit of refactoring will be > required and staged releases of plugins in order not to break users. A > proposal will be sent next week on how we might proceed, but essentially > involves finding efficient ways to find use of deprecated code and provide > alternatives to the deprecated code that we are willing to support forever > more. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > http://twitter.com/takari_io > --------------------------------------------------------- > > the course of true love never did run smooth ... > > -- Shakespeare > > > > > > > > > >
