Announcement collides with ${changes.version} property ------------------------------------------------------
Key: MCHANGES-188 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCHANGES-188 Project: Maven 2.x Changes Plugin Issue Type: Bug Components: announcement Affects Versions: 2.2 Reporter: Sebastian Hoß When you set the ${changes.version} property manually (e.g. to specify the version of the changes plugin itself) the changes-plugin uses the given value as the projects version and fails if you don't have a matching release with the exact same version number. This behavior is AFAIK not documented anywhere and should either be changed or documented. I stumbled upon this yesterday and wrote an mail with further information and a stack trace for this here: http://maven.markmail.org/message/mg2qfnd4lw53larn The plugins documentation[1] itself says that ${project.version} is the default value for the version field, however the code[2] tells that version is set to the expression="${changes.version}" with a default-value="${project.version}". So this "bug" only affects people who have defined a ${changes.version} property. Changing the name of the property resolves this. This only affects the announcement goals, jira-report along mvn site runs fine which may be a little confusing for users who have a running mvn site configuration and now want to add announcement mails but run into this problem (like myself in this case). [1]: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-changes-plugin/announcement-generate-mojo.html [2]: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-changes-plugin/xref/org/apache/maven/plugin/announcement/AnnouncementMojo.html#82 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira