Great to hear new donation, however your plugin is very similar with
buildnumber-maven-plugin, i think
-D
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Bryon Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've got a plugin I'd like to donate to Mojo, if there's interest - I've
> named it rev-maven-plugin, and it's got one goal: properties
>
> The plugin simply generates a properties file that contains a property for
> the maven project version number, and (optionally) the SVN revision number.
> We have used a similar thing on some other projects (just an antrun script
> that shelled out to "svn info", actually) to generate such a properties file
> for all of our HTTP services for a while - our applications load the
> properties file, and expose a /version.txt URL so we can quickly verify
> exactly what version and SVN revision a running server in our system is on
> (the SVN revision number is particularly useful when we're deploying
> SNAPSHOT builds to our staging servers...) Another use we've found for it
> is to incorporate the version and/or revision into group names for a
> cluster of servers that configures itself over UDP -- to make sure that only
> servers running the exact same version/revision of the code try to
> coordinate. Basically, it's just taking a snapshot of this bit of info
> that's available at build time, and storing it off somewhere where it can be
> used at run time.
>
> Anyways, after chatting with Jason at JavaOne last week, I thought that this
> might be something that the broader maven community might find useful, so I
> spent a bit of time coding it up as a proper mojo, and to use the SvnKit
> subversion library for java instead of the wanky shelling out to SVN. It's
> a tiny plugin, pretty simple to grok and use. The properties file it
> generates looks like:
>
> yourproject/target/rev.properties
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #revision properties for YourProject, generated by rev-maven-plugin
> #Mon May 12 16:31:24 CDT 2008
> yourproject.revision=17
> yourproject.version=2.0-SNAPSHOT
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I think I've dotted all the i's to make it a well-behaved mojo project (code
> style, all the basics for the site, etc.), so if there's interest I will zip
> it up and submit a JIRA issue to create it in the sandbox.
>
> thanks!
>
> - Bryon
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