On Thursday, 31 January 2013, Tonio Caputo wrote: > I'm using maven release for a release procedure, following this workflow > > 1 - release:branch create a release candidate > using version X.X.X-000-SNAPSHOT > (000 stands for build number) > > 2 - release:prepare release:stage to deploy the > artifact to a staging repository > > 3 - Repeat step 2 until release candidate is ok > > 4 - run release:perform with the last staging data > > The problem I find is that in step 4 release:perform "recompiles" > everything, while I was expecting just to deploy de already > created binaries. > > So my question: > > - Is this an expected behaviour (perform recompilation) ?
Yes, the other builds are just from your workspace, and not from the tag. There are occasions where the workspace files can differ from the tag, so release:perform checks out the tag and builds from that > > - Anyway you can override this (perfrom recompilation) ? You can tell release:prepare to skip compilation, eg with preparationGoals of initialize or validate But that is skipping a different compilation than the one you want > > - I guess is a common request to expect release deploy to contain > the same binaries as accepted release candidate, may be I'm wrong ? Well, it depends. Releases are supposed to be consistent, so it *should not matter* that the binary is different because of time stamps, etc... But it is expensive to re-run your QA process just because the time stamp on META-INF/MANIFEST.MF changed and hence the sha1 signature... > > - Any other way to somehow do this you think, without relying on > maven repository features ? 1. The wagon-maven-plugin @ mojo has goals for copying from one maven repo to another (aka poor man's staging) 2. If you are using the (evil) maven project type in Jenkins (freestyle + maven build step is good though) it allows re-deploying artifacts, so you might be able to build a staging workflow on top of that. 3. I have wanted to feed the mrm-maven-plugin with staging support, in theory it is easy to add... In practice it is not very itchy for me compared to my other itches > Thanks in advance > tonio >
