New target to display useful information from a project
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Key: MPH-39
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPH-39
Project: Maven 2.x Help Plugin
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 2.0.1
Reporter: Martin von Gagern
When there is a bug in some library, you might wish to have a look at its issue
tracking system, or at its source code repository to look if it has already
been fixed. To do so, you need to know the group and artifact id of the library
containing the bug, and then one can start looking at the pom in the local
repository. In the case of multi-modules, this is likely to reference a parent,
and not provide any URLs itself, so you repeat the steps for the parent,
recursively.
After doing so for three libraries today, I believe the help plugin should do
this automatically. I could imagine three possibilities.
1. Integrate into the already lengthy help:describe output
2. Provide help:urls so you can do "mvn help:urls -DgroupId=some.group
-DartifactId=buggy-library" and it would list all effective pom elements
designed to contain URLs, probably excepting all developer and contributor
URLs, and take care of proper inheritance.
3. Provide help:property so you can do "mvn help:property -DgroupId=some.group
-DartifactId=buggy-library -Dproperty=project.scm.url" to get at single
properties, again with inheritance handled by the mojo.
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