Hi all, based on a discussion with Enrico Olivelli on Slack [1], I’d like to bring up the topic of automated publishing of snapshots of core Maven plugins.
Currently, some plugins have snapshots in the ASF’s snapshot repo [2] and others (such as the maven-checkstyle-plugin) don’t have any. The ones that are published are often outdated and do not contain the latest changes. I work for Gradle and we’re developing a Maven extension that we’d like to test against the latest snapshots of Maven and all supported plugins. I think having snapshots published automatically with every commit to the development branch would be generally useful for developers who would like to try out the latest version to provide feedback etc. So, first of all, I’d like to discuss with you if you think publishing snapshots automatically would be useful. If so, I’d be happy to contribute although I expect the changes would mostly have to be made in Jenkins. Cheers, Marc [1] https://the-asf.slack.com/archives/C7Q9JB404/p1555263260044100 [2] https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/maven/plugins/ Marc Philipp Senior Software Engineer Gradle W. gradle.com
