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Richard Eckart de Castilho commented on MNG-6384:
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Sounds like the new setting should resolve the issue described. However, looks
like I cannot close the issue despite having created it.
> Project URL should not be extended with artifactId when inherited
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> Key: MNG-6384
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6384
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
> Priority: Major
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> 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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