On 5-Apr-08, at 3:13 PM, Benjamin Bentmann wrote:
Jason van Zyl wrote:
You don't need a 72 hour vote, I would try it in a branch first
and then
get people to look at it.
Just wondering: If I would fill in JIRAs for each affected plugin to
request
a) adding an encoding parameter if not already existent
b) making this parameter default to Latin-1
would we start branches on the plugins for each of these issues?
I mean this proposal is not about a revolutionary new feature, it's
merely
the attempt to create a guideline for consistent encoding handling
in the
various source processing plugins. More precisely, we're seeking
consensus
that
a) the core team will eventually introduce a new POM element for
this in
Maven 2.1, named project.build.sourceEncoding or whatever we agree
upon
I specifically meant the core changes, but I would still recommending
what Milos did which was to create branches for a few of the affected
plugins to try it all together. Most certainly to test new elements in
the POM you need to use a branch because we still don't have a
strategy for dealing with model changes.
If plugins can be changed, used with the existing versions of Maven
with no disruption then do it in-situ.
b) in the meantime, Maven 2.0.x will define an equally name property
for
this in its super POM
c) it's OK to have Latin-1 as default encoding rather than the
platform
encoding
Also, this is not going to be a code change that plops out one day
as a huge
merge back into trunk. Rather, it's an incremental process where the
required improvements to plugin X can be made independently of the
development on plugin Y.
For example, MPLUGIN-101 and MINVOKER-30 already have patches for
this topic
pending. Is it really expected to open a branch, apply the patches
to the
branch and merge back (the same day) instead of applying them
directly to
trunk? Do I underestimate this?
Benjamin
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Jason
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