Richard Eckart de Castilho created MNG-6384:
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Summary: Project URL should not be extended with artifactId when
inherited
Key: MNG-6384
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6384
Project: Maven
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
According to the POM reference, the "url" element is informational and a "nice
gesture" to users (https://maven.apache.org/pom.html):
{quote}
name: Projects tend to have conversational names, beyond the artifactId. The
Sun engineers did not refer to their project as "java-1.5", but rather just
called it "Tiger". Here is where to set that value.
description: Description of a project is always good. Although this should not
replace formal documentation, a quick comment to any readers of the POM is
always helpful.
url: The URL, like the name, is not required. This is a nice gesture for
projects users, however, so that they know where the project lives.
inceptionYear: This is another good documentation point. It will at least help
you remember where you have spent the last few years of your life.
{quote}
However, Maven chooses to append the artifact ID when the "url" is inherited.
IMHO that does not make any sense. In particular it does not make any sense to
have to re-declare the project URL in *every child module* of a complex project
which is usually inheriting from some project-specific top-level POM. It should
be sufficient to declare the URL in the project's top-level POM and just have
the children inherit it.
An inheriting project can usually not be expected to "live" under
"url/artifactId". If the project truly lives somewhere else, then the POM
should explicitly overwrite the URL. Otherwise, it should IMHO be assumed that
the project continues to live in the same place.
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