Convention over configuration is fine. Dictatorships end badly. Make it the convention, and allow it to be configured off. This is where Maven has always failed from time to time, especially in the old days. The less it's true, the better.
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> wrote: > On 10 August 2013 23:06, Fred Cooke <fred.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Please keep such information leakage optional. The editing of, and indeed > > adding of, the "tag" element by the release plugin should already be > > optional IMO. > > Why? > With such information I know which tag has been used to build > artifacts. ( > http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven/3.0.5/maven-3.0.5.pom > ) > Without this it's not possible with only the git url. > For people/tools using scm informations for rebuilding packages etc.. > it can be very interesting. > > > >Especially if it breaks formatting of the POM, which it does > > in some cases, at least. And yeah, I know why, and I know it's not a > > trivial fix. (Thanks to Robert for educating me many months ago). > > > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> On 10 August 2013 21:12, Dennis Lundberg <denn...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I'm looking at the sources for Maven core in Git, which I'm learning > >> > as I go along. > >> > > >> > "master" is at version 3.1.1-SNAPSHOT and has this in its pom.xml > >> > <scm> > >> > <connection>scm:git: > >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/maven.git</connection> > >> > <developerConnection>scm:git: > >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/maven.git</developerConnection> > >> > <url>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven.git</url> > >> > <tag>HEAD</tag> > >> > </scm> > >> > > >> > The head "maven-3.0.x" is at version 3.0.6-SNAPSHOT and has this in > its > >> pom.xml > >> > <scm> > >> > <connection>scm:git: > >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/maven.git</connection> > >> > <developerConnection>scm:git: > >> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/maven.git</developerConnection> > >> > <url>https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=maven.git</url> > >> > <tag>HEAD</tag> > >> > </scm> > >> > > >> > Since this is identical to what is in "master" I don't think this > >> > would work if you tried to do a release using the Release Plugin. > >> > Wouldn't that release what is specified in <tag> i.e. "HEAD". Now, I > >> > have looked through our documentation and used Google to find a > >> > solution, but to no avail. From what I have gathered we should change > >> > the value of <tag>, but to what? Would it involve > >> > "ref/heads/maven-3.0.x"? > >> > > >> > The head "maven-2.2.x" is at version 2.2.2-RC1-SNAPSHOT and has this > >> > in its pom.xml > >> > <scm> > >> > <connection>scm:svn: > >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/maven-2/branches/maven-2.2.x > >> </connection> > >> > <developerConnection>scm:svn: > >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/maven-2/branches/maven-2.2.x > >> </developerConnection> > >> > <url> > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/maven-2/branches/maven-2.2.x > >> </url> > >> > </scm> > >> > > >> > Obviously this has not been updated since the move to Git, which is > >> > one of the things I'm trying to fix. > >> > >> scm url will be the same for all branches. > >> It simply depend of the branch you are working on locally. > >> btw the <tag>HEAD</tag> in maven-3.0.x branch is wrong. > >> IHMO It's something to improve in the release plugin to put here the > >> current branch in use. > >> > >> > > >> > Hopefully someone who has made a release using Maven Release Plugin > >> > from a Git branch can shed some light on this. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Dennis Lundberg > >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Olivier Lamy > >> Ecetera: http://ecetera.com.au > >> http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > -- > Olivier Lamy > Ecetera: http://ecetera.com.au > http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
