Maven 2.x Help Plugin

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Component/s: None
• Labels:

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Right now if you "mvn help:describe" with no further arguments you get an error: "You must either specify 'groupId' and 'artifactId', or a valid 'plugin' parameter."

The people who are using help:describe don't necessarily know how help:describe works yet; if they did, they might be clever enough to use "mvn help:describe -Dplugin=help -Dmojo=describe" to figure out how help:describe works.

This error message should be more like a paragraph long, and should include valid working examples. It could be copied from the apt doc for the help plugin.

• Assignee:

  Vincent Siveton

  Reporter:

  Dan Fabulich

• Created:

  04/Feb/08 4:55 PM

  Updated:

  06/Aug/08 6:02 AM

  Resolved:

  06/Aug/08 6:02 AM