On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 at 18:22, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 12:43 Emmanuel Bourg <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> It was originally added here:
> https://lists.apache.org/thread/hm93o4tyffsvyxcpfn22mln6c5rxbv67
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> to provide input for the Implementation-Build meta-data entry.
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> This was dropped here:
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> https://github.com/apache/commons-parent/pull/242

Please see https://github.com/apache/commons-parent/pull/683

Gary

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> > > Emmanuel Bourg
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