Matthew Daniel created MRELEASE-797:
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Summary: support semantic versioning
Key: MRELEASE-797
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-797
Project: Maven 2.x Release Plugin
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: update-versions
Affects Versions: 2.3.2
Environment: Maven 3.0.4
Reporter: Matthew Daniel
Priority: Minor
When a project is using [semantic versioning|http://semver.org/], the
maven-release-plugin will only increment the right-most version identifier
(which corresponds to a "patch" release in semver terminology). It would be
helpful if the maven-release-plugin understood the 3 normal release severities:
major, minor and patch.
Current behavior:
# Given a {{pom.xml}} with version {{1.0.50-SNAPSHOT}}
# When the user executes {{mvn release:update-versions -Dsemver=major}} (as a
hypothetical syntax)
# Then observe that {{pom.xml}} contains {{1.0.51-SNAPSHOT}}, not
{{2.0.0-SNAPSHOT}} as a "major" release would dictate
Expected behavior:
# Given a pom version in {{X.Y.Z}} format
# When one indicates the desired semantic version release level to
maven-release-plugin
# Then maven-release-plugin increments {{X.Y.Z}} according to the user's
indicated release level
It would be an error condition for the user to request a semantic version
release level when the pom's version is not in {{X.Y.Z}} format (plus any
miscellaneous trailing text as specified in rules 10, 11 or 12 of the semver
specification).
It is currently possible to work around this via manual construction of a
{{release.properties}} file, but that requires a 2 step build process: run the
script then run the Maven targets. Further, one would expect that all Maven
projects that use semantic versioning would need to implement their own
pre-release scripts, which is wasteful.
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