Maven 2 & 3

automatic parent versioning

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: In Progress In Progress
  • Priority: Blocker Blocker
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: 3.2
  • Component/s: Inheritance and Interpolation
  • Labels:
    None
  • Number of attachments :
    2

Description

(this may be bumped to 2.1 or even made WON't FIX as it is contentious - see MNG-521)

currently, you have to specify the parent version when extending which makes a project stand alone very easily, but has the drawback of being a maintainance problem when you start development on a new version. Tools can help, but it would be nice not to have to rely on them.

One alternative is to allow the parent version to be omitted, and when it is it is assumed you want the latest. The parent is used from the reactor or the universal source directory. IT may also be read from a LATEST in the repository though this is contentious - it may be better to simply fail in that environment and require builds be in a known checkout structure for building individual projects.

This also introduces the need for tool support to populate the version on release and deployment for reproducibility.

Issue Links

is duplicated by

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNG-4369 Maven does not expand expressions while installing artifacts locally

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNG-2569 Expressions not evaluated inside <parent>

  • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.
is related to

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNG-3782 Variable substition not performed in transitive dependency using value from active profile

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Open - The issue is open and ready for the assignee to start work on it.

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNG-3057 properties not expanded in generated POMs when building A/B/C nested projects

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNG-2446 parent Pom properties not resolved for module dependencies

  • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. MNG-4161 possibility to omit version in dependency of same project (and fill in on install/deploy)

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Open - The issue is open and ready for the assignee to start work on it.

Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. MNG-3267 replacing variables in version, groupId or artifactId when POM is installed/deployed

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

Wish - General wishlist item MNG-2199 Version ranges not supported for parent artifacts

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Open - The issue is open and ready for the assignee to start work on it.
relates to

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNG-1468 best practices: version management in multi project builds

  • Trivial - Cosmetic problem like misspelt words or misaligned text.
  • Open - The issue is open and ready for the assignee to start work on it.

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNG-2971 Variables are not replaced into installed pom file

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Reopened - This issue was once resolved, but the resolution was deemed incorrect. From here issues are either marked assigned or resolved.

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNG-3070 ${x} properties no longer expanded in </version> tag after 2.0.3

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. MINSTALL-50 provide property filtering on .pom files placed in local repo

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Open - The issue is open and ready for the assignee to start work on it.

Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. MNG-521 Version inheritance from the parent pom

  • Blocker - Blocks development and/or testing work, production could not run
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

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People

  • Assignee:
    Ralph Goers
    Reporter:
    Brett Porter
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