On Sep 14, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote:

> When a release fails like this it is annoying to have to rev back the version 
> of the POM. I'm not sure who flipped the versions in the POM and while it's a 
> little more visible to see what you're moving toward I prefer the pattern of:
> 
> 3.1-SNAPSHOT --> 3.1.1 --> 3.1-SNAPSHOT --> 3.1.2 --> 3.1-SNAPSHOT
> 
> I know this may not be obvious to the casual observer as they may think 3.1 
> is next, but I'm personally fine with that.
> 
> Especially after a failed release because then I don't have to go change all 
> the POMs (whether rolling back manually, using the release rollback, the 
> version:set command, or whatever else). It's much easier to just fix what's 
> necessary and carry on.


You don't have to go back and reset the poms.  Just re-run the 
maven-release-plugin and when it asks for the release version, type in 3.1.1 
instead of defaulting to 3.1.2.


Dan



> Unless anyone objects I would like to go back this pattern, what I previously 
> had, because it's far easier to manage. Ideally it might be nice if all the 
> tools understood 3.1.z-SNAPSHOT but they don't an in lieu of that I would 
> prefer not to diddle POMs after a failed release.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
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> Jason van Zyl
> Founder,  Apache Maven
> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl
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Daniel Kulp
[email protected] - http://dankulp.com/blog
Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com


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