Maven 2 & 3

Informational messages could be clearer regarding goal execution

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Trivial Trivial
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 3.0-alpha-5
  • Fix Version/s: Issues to be reviewed for 3.x
  • Component/s: Errors
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  • Complexity:
    Intermediate
  • Number of attachments :
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Description

As the lifecycle of projects are executed, these type of informational messages are emitted:
[INFO] — maven-clean-plugin:2.3:clean (default-clean) @ project-name ---

Based on my own team, I think there are three things to note:

  • The plugin:version::goal can easily be confused with the the dependency artifactId:version:classifier format. Seriously.
  • I don't think the @ symbol is natural to describe the project.
  • The execution name probably could be suppressed unless DEBUG was on.

How about?
[INFO] — maven-clean-plugin:2.3 executing goal "clean" for project Project Name ---

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Robert Scholte added a comment -

Actually, if you prefix the plugin with the groupId, i.e. org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.3:clean, it would make it a lot easier to copy/paste that line and execute it directly on the commandline.
I'd prefer to keep it as compact as possible, since this line is printed quite often during a build.

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Robert Scholte added a comment - Actually, if you prefix the plugin with the groupId, i.e. org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.3:clean , it would make it a lot easier to copy/paste that line and execute it directly on the commandline. I'd prefer to keep it as compact as possible, since this line is printed quite often during a build.

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    Reporter:
    Paul Benedict
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