On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 00:13, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 1:26 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The properties are used by the release plugin.
> >
> > But since they are unique to the user, they do not belong in the shared pom.
>
> So they should be blank in the component pom?

No, they must be absent.

> Why do they need to be there at all?


It seems they are used by the vote-text goal.

> Can't they just be provided on the command line?

Yes.

>  I detest settings.xml, btw.  Not under source control, throw-back to the old 
> special local voodoo build days.

Most (all?) of it can be provided on the command line.
However, that gets tedious; settings.xml provides useful short-cuts.

It should only be used for settings specific to the user.
It cannot therefore be added to shared source control.
However, you could always keep your copy under source control.

> Phil
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 at 02:33, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > +1 but why then are those properties there?
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
> > > > On Oct 2, 2023, at 3:58 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > As the subject says, please do not use the pom to store RM details 
> > > > such as
> > > >
> > > > commons.releaseManagerName
> > > > commons.releaseManagerKey
> > > >
> > > > These properties are personal to the user, and should be defined in
> > > > ~/.m2/settings.xml.
> > > > See https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-release-plugin/index.html
> > > >
> > > > Or you can define them on the command line.
> > > >
> > > > If the RM details are stored in the pom, then it is all too easy for
> > > > the wrong values to be used.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Sebb
> > > >
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