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Alexander Kriegisch commented on MNG-4917: ------------------------------------------ [~gnodet], that the behaviour was there by design or even that it is documented as-is does not mean that it makes much sense or is anything but counter-intuitive and more harmful than helpful due to its raising false expectations, stealing every developer's time playing with it and your time answering related issues. The very fact that two workarounds - namely {{<jdk>[1.)</jdk>}} and {{<condition>true</condition>}} - were suggested here and that workarounds are even necessary for something so simple because the existing option with a name implying to do what developers need, might clue you in to the fact that something might be wrong in this picture. > Profile not active even though it has activeByDefault set to true > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-4917 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-4917 > Project: Maven > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Profiles > Affects Versions: 3.0, 3.8.5 > Reporter: Benson Margulies > Assignee: Guillaume Nodet > Priority: Major > Attachments: pom.xml > > > I've got a parent pom with a profile with > <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>. > You can retrieve it for yourself via git clone > git://git.apache.org/webservices-xmlschema.git. > The problem is the sourcecheck profile in the parent pom. > running mvn -Psourcecheck works as expected, but running without the -P fails > to activate the profile. > the help plugin, I think, has separate problems in this area, or perhaps it's > not supposed to look at -P? -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)