http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/prepare-mojo.html
If you look at the preperationGoal option of the prepare goal, you will see the default is clean verify. If you change with to simple be clean, the prepare phase won't actually try and build the snapshot. IMHO, your second concern isn't very severe if you have continuous integration in place. If you do, you will always know when your snapsnot is sane making the building of the snapshot during the prepare phase virtually useless. You of course don't want to release if your CI shows the build to be broken. > -----Original Message----- > From: Phillip Hellewell [mailto:ssh...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:48 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Release plugin should tag the revision that was built in > the prepare phase > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Thiessen, Todd (Todd) > <tthies...@avaya.com> wrote: > > You can skip the building of the snapshot by changing the goals in > the prepare phase. This will then jump you right to tag creation, > checkout of the tag and building of the tag during the perform phase. > > Thanks Todd; can you give me a hint on how to change the goals that > get run by release:prepare? Does that mean compiling my own special > version of the release plugin? > > I do kinda like the idea of skipping the build of the snapshot. The > only downside though is when a build is broken we would end up with a > useless tag / unusable version, but maybe we could live with that... > > Phillip > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
