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Andreas Dangel commented on MPMD-391:
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To see, why the build failed, the property 
[printFailingErrors|https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-pmd-plugin/check-mojo.html#printFailingErrors]
 can be set - which is by default disabled (not sure why).
This however just adds more output and doesn't remove unnecessary clutter...

> Log what developers care about and not what they don't
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MPMD-391
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPMD-391
>             Project: Maven PMD Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
>            Priority: Major
>
> Here's output from a recent PMD plugin run that failed:
> [INFO] >>> maven-pmd-plugin:3.21.2:check (default-cli) > :pmd @ commons-io >>>
> [INFO] 
> [INFO] --- maven-pmd-plugin:3.21.2:pmd (pmd) @ commons-io ---
> [INFO] PMD version: 6.55.0
> [INFO] Rendering content with 
> org.apache.maven.skins:maven-default-skin:jar:1.3 skin.
> [INFO] 
> [INFO] <<< maven-pmd-plugin:3.21.2:check (default-cli) < :pmd @ commons-io <<<
> [INFO] 
> [INFO] 
> [INFO] --- maven-pmd-plugin:3.21.2:check (default-cli) @ commons-io ---
> [INFO] PMD version: 6.55.0
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Total time:  05:22 min
> [INFO] Finished at: 2024-01-14T14:11:30Z
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Error:  Failed to execute goal 
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-pmd-plugin:3.21.2:check (default-cli) on 
> project commons-io: You have 1 PMD violation. For more details see: 
> /home/runner/work/commons-io/commons-io/target/pmd.xml -> [Help 1]
> Error:  
> Error:  To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e 
> switch.
> Error:  Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
> Error:  
> Error:  For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please 
> read the following articles:
> Error:  [Help 1] 
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException
> Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
> Things I don't care about that are printed:
> * PMD version
> * Doxia skin
> * Blank lines
> * Total time 
> * Timestamp when it finished
> * Generic information about Mojo failures
> * Exit code from Mojo
> The one thing I care about:
> * The actual error that caused the failure
> Everything in the first list can be hidden in some random log file no one 
> will ever look at. Everything in the second list should be front and center. 
> Instead Maven gets this exactly backwards,



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