[jira] Closed: (MPH-32) "medium" mode should be the default for help:describe

["Vincent Siveton (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPH-32?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Vincent Siveton closed MPH-32.
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         Assignee: Vincent Siveton
       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 2.1

fixed in [r689775|http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=689775&view=rev], snapshot deployed.

> "medium" mode should be the default for help:describe
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MPH-32
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPH-32
>             Project: Maven 2.x Help Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Dan Fabulich
>            Assignee: Vincent Siveton
>             Fix For: 2.1
>
>
> Right now if you "mvn help:describe -Dplugin=compiler" you'll see this:
> {noformat}
> [INFO] Plugin: 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2'
> -----------------------------------------------
> Group Id:  org.apache.maven.plugins
> Artifact Id: maven-compiler-plugin
> Version:     2.0.2
> Goal Prefix: compiler
> Description:
> Maven Plugins
> {noformat}
> This doesn't include the list of goals in this plugin.  Similarly, if you "mvn help:describe -Dplugin=compiler -Dmojo=compile" you'll see this:
> {noformat}
> ===============================================
> Goal: 'compile'
> Description:
> Compiles application sources
> ===============================================
> {noformat}
> This doesn't describe any of the plugin parameters.
> The problem here is that the "default" amount of information shown by help:describe is just way too minimal, requiring the user to be clever enough to add -Dmedium or -Dfull to get the information that they'd see for free if they looked at the website.
> -Dmedium should be the default mode; if people just want to see the minimal amount of information, we could add a new mode called -Dminimal or -Dshort that would include less information.  Overall, IMO our objective should be that running mvn help:describe should, by default, give approximately the same information you'd get by browsing to a plugin's site.

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