On 13 December 2014 at 17:51, Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At least some skip should be removed since it breaks apache parent behavior.

No idea what you mean here - if you think there is a bug, file a JIRA issue.

> Le 13 déc. 2014 18:42, "sebb" <seb...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> On 13 December 2014 at 12:26, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de> wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > I've never seen any other ASF project where it is such a torture to
>> release.
>> > This is partly because the quality level is really high, but a big part
>> of it is that we don't have a mature parent pom.
>>
>> Sorry, but I don't think that is at all relevant.
>> Releasing is tedious because Maven does not really support non-Maven
>> release directories (i.e. www.apache.org/dist/commons) so work-rounds
>> are needed.
>> This is true whatever the parent pom is used.
>>
>> It's partly also that Maven does some things well, but when
>> adjustments are needed, it can be all but impossible to work out how
>> to coax it to do what's needed.
>>
>> >
>> > I have no clue why we don't just use the common apache parent pom. I've
>> NEVER experienced such issues like missing NOTICE and LICENSE with it. It's
>> really much more solid than our own one.
>>
>> Until very recently the ASF parent pom was broken, and with no sign of
>> any fixes.
>> For example, it did not allow override of the compiler plugin version,
>> and there were a few other issues with it.
>>
>> There are stil issues with LICENSE and NOTICE, because the
>> automatically created ones are not always correct.
>> I'm not sure it creates the appropriate source and javadoc jars either.
>>
>> And it does not create decent manifests.
>>
>> The Commons Pom includes a lot of common setup that would otherwise
>> have to be added to each component's parent pom.
>> That is not an efficient way of proceeding.
>>
>> There are various other additional optional features in the Commons
>> pom which are useful for testing.
>>
>> I think the CP pom works fine for single module projects.
>> I'm not sure about multimodule projects, but is the ASF pom any better?
>>
>> Rather than raise unsubstantiated criticisms of the CP pom, file bugs
>> for any problems and/or try fixing them.
>>
>> > LieGrue,
>> > strub
>> >
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