[jira] Commented: (MSITE-458) Fixing the order of items in "Modules" menu

["Andreas Sewe (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Andreas Sewe commented on MSITE-458:
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Another side effect of using the reactor to determine the menu order (bit me today with 3.0-beta-3) is that the use of the {{resume-from}} option leads to incomplete "Modules" menus; this makes said option sadly unusable. So fixing this issue was more than a merely cosmetic change.

> Fixing the order of items in "Modules" menu
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MSITE-458
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSITE-458
>             Project: Maven 2.x and 3.x Site Plugin
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: multi module
>    Affects Versions: 2.1
>            Reporter: Andreas Sewe
>            Assignee: Lukas Theussl
>             Fix For: 2.3, 3.0-beta-4
>
>         Attachments: demo.tar.gz
>
>
> Currently, it is impossible to influence the order in which the "Modules" show up in a generated site's menu when including them like this in the site descriptor:
> bq. <menu ref="modules"/>
> As far as I can tell, the order of items in the menu depends on the order in which Maven builds the modules -- and this does not always put the most important module at the top of the list. In fact, the top of the list is in all likelihood occupied by various low-level infrastructure modules; the high-level, user-visible modules typically come much later. :-( 
> This also means that the order of menu items depends on the module's dependencies; thus, this can result in unforeseen changes to the *site* when one module's *build* changes. Why doesn't Maven simply use the order of the {{module}} elements? That would be simple and predictable.

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