On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 at 18:22, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 12:43 Emmanuel Bourg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The buildnumber-maven-plugin is bound to the generate-resources phase > > unless the buildNumber.skip property is set, but I couldn't find any use > > of the ${buildNumber}, ${scmBranch} nor ${timestamp} properties in the > > pom of the main Commons components. I may be missing something, but it > > looks like it's unused. > > > > Can we remove it? Or disable it by default unless a property is set? > > > > I wonder if this was used back in our svn days when the revision number was > meaningful in human read version history (as opposed to a git commit hash). > > Does this plugin play any role in helping with reproducible builds? > > If not, it might be OK to drop it or at least disable it.
It was originally added here: https://lists.apache.org/thread/hm93o4tyffsvyxcpfn22mln6c5rxbv67 to provide input for the Implementation-Build meta-data entry. This was dropped here: https://github.com/apache/commons-parent/pull/242 > Gary > > > > Emmanuel Bourg > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
