I can do the maven-dependency-plugin release. I have a few mojos that
need some more tests and then I need to update the site and it's ready. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:39 PM
To: Maven Developers List
Subject: Re: Time to release the Release plugin?


On 26 Oct 06, at 5:15 PM 26 Oct 06, Daniel Kulp wrote:

> On Thursday October 26 2006 11:26 am, Matthew Beermann wrote:
>> Are there any plans to release a new version of the Release plugin 
>> any time soon? It's been since last May (!)...
>>
>> The particular feature we're most interested in is for it to insert 
>> explict versions of the build plugins while creating the release POM.
>> This is a necessary prerequisite to having truly repeatable builds.
>> There are comments in the code to the effect that this feature is 
>> planned, but I can't seem to find the JIRA issue that tracks it...
>>
>> --Matthew Beermann
>
> While we're on the subject, what about some of the other plugins that 
> haven't seen action in a while or have other major issues:
>

Ok, I spent a little time rounding up some people to take on releases
and we have the following:

maven-dependency-plugin: John Tolentino
maven-surefire-plugin: Kenney
maven-pmd-plugin: Joakim
maven-checkstyle-plugin: Joakim
maven-release-plugin: Jason

And seeing as I found people for those you are going to do the maven-
assembly-plugin :-)

We'll all start working next week and release them as soon as we can.

Jason.

> 1) maven-dependency-plugin - this one actually has docs on 
> maven.apache.org
> (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/).   
> However, it
> doesn't actually exist.   It's NEVER been released.   The only  
> released
> version available is the older "mojo" versions that don't have all the
> new goals documented at apache.org.   Anyway, having a plugin  
> listed at
> apache.org that doesn't actually exist is probably not a good thing.
>
> 2) surefire - the 2.2 version is pretty much un-usable in a reactor 
> build with reporting turned on as all the tests are "cumulative" and 
> you get
> results from previous modules in the current module.    We've had to
> force the usage of 2.1.3.     Also, JUnit 4 would be nice.   :-)    
> (one
> project I'm involved in has almost abandoned the ant -> maven 
> transition due to lack of JUnit 4 support)
>
> 3) PMD - pmd 3.8 was released a few weeks ago.   Updating the  
> plugin just
> to use 3.8 would be nice as it fixes several problems with JDK 1.5 
> code.
> (Requires 3.8 being added to central)
>
> 4) Assembly - hasn't been released since May.  The SNAPSHOTS have some
> fixes that were required by tuscany.  Not sure the details.   However,
> they cannot use the release plugin due to the snapshot dependency.   
> (not
> that they could use the release plugin anyway due to previously 
> documented issues with the release plugin and the apache processes)
>
> I'm sure other people have more plugins they'd like to see  
> released.   I
> know a bunch of the maven folks are hard at work on things like 
> Archiva, Maven 2.1, rsync improvements, etc...  However, IMO, the 
> current plugins aren't receiving the love and attention they need and 
> the community is suffering for it.
>
> Maybe I should find some time to help out....  :-(
>
> --
> J. Daniel Kulp
> Principal Engineer
> IONA
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