Jason,

my point is that i DID write integration tests as part of the donation to better understand the code, improve the codebase and its reliability. While writing them I did find several issues, some caused because the scripts didn't get in sync with the Maven core scripts. So it is possible to automate these tests, they are there, somebody just has to ported them to the new project. Also with the change of strategy how the wrapper should work we need integration-tests to confirm it all works. We shouldn't gamble, as almost every release people will only test is _after_ its vote, which is just too late.

Robert

[1] https://github.com/apache/maven-integration-testing/tree/master/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-5937%20wrapper

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Van: "Jason van Zyl" <[email protected]>
Aan: "Maven Developers List" <[email protected]>
Verzonden: 12-12-2021 13:54:16
Onderwerp: Re: reviewing Maven Wrapper before releasing

Clearly no one here disagrees with the goal of having robust testing for 
software that is made available to users.

As to the timing of that testing being complete for the wrapper, to the 
satisfaction of those objecting to a release, I will argue.

Do we wait four years for adequate testing? I’m not being facetious because 
we’re rolling up on three years since the initial donation of the wrapper was 
made. No one can force anyone else to do work here, sometimes things take a 
while, and there still may be a great deal of time that passes before testing 
is present that is considered adequate.

All else being equal, I think the value of a release to remove the state of 
limbo the wrapper has been in for years outweighs the current lack of testing. 
The wrapper has been in use for 8 years, and while more testing is preferred we 
have reasonable assurances it works as expected. I don’t think we’ll be back to 
zero if we find issues, they can be fixed and will be accompanied by tests as 
most things here are. Right now from a user’s perspective the wrapper appears 
dead at Takari and Apache which is a shame.

Would everyone be amenable to an alpha release? And transition to a non-alpha 
release when everyone agrees the testing is sufficient?

jvz

 On Dec 12, 2021, at 5:14 AM, Maarten Mulders <[email protected]> wrote:

 Chiming in a little late, but here are my 2 cents nevertheless. I would not 
feel confident releasing something that we cannot test in an automated way. Not 
having an integration test suite means we don't know for sure if it works. And 
if we know it works and we change something, we're back to zero.

 To me, this has nothing to do with a (misplaced) drive for perfection. It is 
all about making sure we ship something to users that we know to work, and that 
we can easily prove to still work after we change it.

 Thanks,

 Maarten

 On 11/12/2021 13:43, Robert Scholte wrote:
 It was marked for Maven 4, and part of the improvements was test automation, 
which was now possible because it became part of Maven Core.
 Even thought the code still exists in Maven Core, is has now become useless.
 There hasn't been a real need for new releases of Maven Wrapper Plugin until a 
range of Maven 3.8 started.
 Maven Wrapper would have been another feature to attract developers to Maven 4.
 And finally, I see that the donated code has been used as base, ignoring all 
the effort done to improve that codebase done afterwards.
 Hence my response that reliability is gone that was added after donation.
 Robert
 ------ Origineel bericht ------
 Van: "Manfred Moser" <[email protected]>
 Aan: [email protected]
 Verzonden: 10-12-2021 20:58:33
 Onderwerp: Re: reviewing Maven Wrapper before releasing
 I totally agree with finally just shipping this. We got this all donated about 
two years ago now and there is still nothing shipping.

 I used to just manually do the testing and thousands of projects are happy. I 
assume the new project is at least manually testing and works as before or 
better. Let's not wait nay more and let perfection get into our way. It surely 
is good enough for a release.

 The beauty is that if you find an issue.. you just ship again ... no reason to 
wait.

 manfred

 Hervé BOUTEMY wrote on 2021-12-10 04:13 (GMT -08:00):

  the current 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT works like 0.5.6 as donated: I confess I did not
  test, I just did not change anything using the general approach "people were
  happy before, just continue step by step improvements" :)

  reading the mvnw script (*nix), compiling+running the .java is executed only 
if
  neither wget nor curl are available on your machine

  reading the mvnw.cmd, it seems .java is not supported

  looking at Git history confirms:
https://github.com/apache/maven-wrapper/commit/570bc50afe07bff696a097cd7746d01b00e70337


  Don't hesitate to create a Jira issue and corresponding fix to add .java
  support for Windows: future 3.1.0 will have one more fix over previous 0.5.6

  Regards,

  Hervé

  Le vendredi 10 décembre 2021, 10:40:41 CET Robert Scholte a écrit :
  I need more time.

  e.g. it looks like type=source doesn't use the Java sourcefile to
  download the wrapper.
  now that the plugin and wrapper are combined in one project, the ITs are
  incomplete.
  They should call both the wrapper-goal and something like 'mvnw
  --version' to ensure it is working (this used to be done in
  maven-integration-testing)

  thanks,
  Robert

  ------ Origineel bericht ------
  Van: "Hervé BOUTEMY" <[email protected]>
  Aan: "Maven Developers List" <[email protected]>
  Verzonden: 10-12-2021 08:08:57
  Onderwerp: Re: reviewing Maven Wrapper before releasing

  >thank you to everybody who reviewed, discussed, contributed
  >
  >we now have 16 issues fixed, everything seems stable
  >
  >if nobody objects, I'll start a release over the week-end
  >
  >Regards,
  >
  >Hervé
  >
  >Le mardi 7 décembre 2021, 00:07:41 CET Hervé BOUTEMY a écrit :
  >>  Hi,
  >>
  >>  Maven Wrapper has been donated to Apache Maven, imported to
  >>
  >>https://github.com/apache/maven-wrapper
  >>
  >>  Documentation published to https://maven.apache.org/wrapper/
  >>
  >>  Here is the list of fixes from previous 0.5.6 release:
  >>https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12323721&;
  >>ve>>
  >>  rsion=12350068
  >>
  >>
  >>  Please test and review so we can do a release soon
  >>
  >>  Regards,
  >>
  >>  Hervé
  >>
  >>
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