RE: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning

2008-06-12 Thread Brian E. Fox
5:30 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning On 13/06/2008, at 2:05 AM, Brian E. Fox wrote: > Perhaps, but 10 releases into a branch isn't a great place for > innovation > either. I agree, but with that being the case we need a featu

Re: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning

2008-06-12 Thread Brett Porter
On 13/06/2008, at 2:05 AM, Brian E. Fox wrote: Perhaps, but 10 releases into a branch isn't a great place for innovation either. I agree, but with that being the case we need a feature development location that we are confident enough to release. Given that, I think we need to move imme

Re: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning

2008-06-12 Thread Brian E. Fox
Perhaps, but 10 releases into a branch isn't a great place for innovation either. On 6/12/08 10:40 AM, "Ralph Goers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wouldn't be quiet so harsh. Of course stability is great and should > always be strived for. But so is innovation. > > For me the key is all about

Re: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning

2008-06-12 Thread Ralph Goers
I wouldn't be quiet so harsh. Of course stability is great and should always be strived for. But so is innovation. For me the key is all about compatibility. If a feature can be added in such a way that by default nothing changes, then we should lean towards putting it in. If it cannot be done

RE: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning

2008-06-12 Thread Brian E. Fox
ne 11, 2008 9:47 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning MNG-624 (automatic parent versioning) is far and away the most popular MNG issue with 85 votes (the next highest has 57). In June of last year, Jason evaluated the attached patch and found problems wi

Re: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning

2008-06-11 Thread Michael McCallum
would it be possible to remove the default relative path... if people want it they can add it... ../pom.xml just seems very arbitrary maybe if you want group based parents it makes sense , i have found real power in using functional parents that define all the plugins for a particular type of

Re: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning

2008-06-11 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 11-Jun-08, at 6:47 PM, Dan Fabulich wrote: MNG-624 (automatic parent versioning) is far and away the most popular MNG issue with 85 votes (the next highest has 57). In June of last year, Jason evaluated the attached patch and found problems with it, but the problems weren't spec

Re: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning

2008-06-11 Thread Brett Porter
On 12/06/2008, at 12:45 PM, Dan Fabulich wrote: Brett Porter wrote: I haven't reviewed the patch, but the comments by Eric about what he did sound quite reasonable to me. Me, too. - ensure that when deployed to the repository, it is *always* set. A POM in the repository with a versionle

Re: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning

2008-06-11 Thread Dan Fabulich
Brett Porter wrote: I haven't reviewed the patch, but the comments by Eric about what he did sound quite reasonable to me. Me, too. - ensure that when deployed to the repository, it is *always* set. A POM in the repository with a versionless-parent would be considered invalid (this is the m

Re: MNG-624 automatic parent versioning

2008-06-11 Thread Brett Porter
this case - utilising a property of the source control structure while not relying on it sounds like a good idea to me. Cheers, Brett On 12/06/2008, at 11:47 AM, Dan Fabulich wrote: MNG-624 (automatic parent versioning) is far and away the most popular MNG issue with 85 votes (the next high

MNG-624 automatic parent versioning

2008-06-11 Thread Dan Fabulich
MNG-624 (automatic parent versioning) is far and away the most popular MNG issue with 85 votes (the next highest has 57). In June of last year, Jason evaluated the attached patch and found problems with it, but the problems weren't specified in the bug description. Can we r

[jira] Commented: (MNG-624) automatic parent versioning

2006-01-11 Thread Brian Fox (JIRA)
[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624?page=comments#action_55515 ] Brian Fox commented on MNG-624: --- here's my 2 cents: What if the parent version could take a tag like LATEST and then the release plugin could resolve it like it does with SNAPSHOTS. IMO, if

[jira] Commented: (MNG-624) automatic parent versioning

2005-11-06 Thread Brett Porter (JIRA)
[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624?page=comments#action_50147 ] Brett Porter commented on MNG-624: -- tha'ts not the meaning of - it still relies on the correct data being used so that the project can be built in isolation. Relative path is a hint fo

[jira] Commented: (MNG-624) automatic parent versioning

2005-11-06 Thread Jeff Jensen (JIRA)
[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624?page=comments#action_50133 ] Jeff Jensen commented on MNG-624: - On a different use case, with my current understanding, this seems to easily make sense when specifying . In fact, in that case, it seems one could le

[jira] Updated: (MNG-624) automatic parent versioning

2005-09-25 Thread Brett Porter (JIRA)
[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624?page=all ] Brett Porter updated MNG-624: - Fix Version: (was: 2.0-beta-2) 2.1 > automatic parent versioning > --- > > Key: MNG-624 > URL: http://jira.code

[jira] Updated: (MNG-624) automatic parent versioning

2005-09-22 Thread Brett Porter (JIRA)
[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624?page=all ] Brett Porter updated MNG-624: - Component: maven-project > automatic parent versioning > --- > > Key: MNG-624 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624 >

[jira] Updated: (MNG-624) automatic parent versioning

2005-09-07 Thread Brett Porter (JIRA)
[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624?page=all ] Brett Porter updated MNG-624: - Fix Version: (was: 2.0-beta-1) 2.0-beta-2 > automatic parent versioning > --- > > Key: MNG-624 > URL: http://ji

[jira] Updated: (MNG-624) automatic parent versioning

2005-08-22 Thread Brett Porter (JIRA)
[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624?page=all ] Brett Porter updated MNG-624: - Assign To: Brett Porter Remaining Estimate: 4 hours Original Estimate: 14400 > automatic parent versioning > --- > > Key: M

[jira] Updated: (MNG-624) automatic parent versioning

2005-08-21 Thread Brett Porter (JIRA)
[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624?page=all ] Brett Porter updated MNG-624: - Priority: Blocker (was: Critical) > automatic parent versioning > --- > > Key: MNG-624 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-6

[jira] Updated: (MNG-624) automatic parent versioning

2005-08-21 Thread Brett Porter (JIRA)
[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624?page=all ] Brett Porter updated MNG-624: - Priority: Critical (was: Major) > automatic parent versioning > --- > > Key: MNG-624 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624

[jira] Created: (MNG-624) automatic parent versioning

2005-07-20 Thread Brett Porter (JIRA)
automatic parent versioning --- Key: MNG-624 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-624 Project: Maven 2 Type: Improvement Reporter: Brett Porter Fix For: 2.0-beta-1 (this may be bumped to 2.1 or even made WON't FIX as it is contenti