On 26 Dec 06, at 8:29 PM 26 Dec 06, Luke Blanshard wrote:
Brian E. Fox wrote:
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.
Hi Brian,
You wrote this on October 27th. I'm a maven newbie, but as far as
I can tell it hasn't happened yet. Can you give us an update on
your planned timeline?
Incidentally, if you're planning to release this as "alpha-1", I
really don't see the need for having all the i's dotted and t's
crossed. I'd be happy to have the thing released as-is, called
alpha, and give you the time you need to finalize the 2.0 release.
But still make the thing available.
It's in the queue, we've released most of the plugins mentioned, a
few more up for votes and the release plugin is next on the list.
Realistically a week before I look at it myself, someone might get
there first.
jason.
Thanks,
Luke Blanshard
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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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