[jira] [Commented] (MRELEASE-956) Release Strategy Interface

["Robert Scholte (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Robert Scholte commented on MRELEASE-956:
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Yes, I have this idea for quite some time. Just didn't had the need to implement it yet, there are enough issues screaming to be fixed too.

> Release Strategy Interface
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: MRELEASE-956
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-956
>             Project: Maven Release Plugin
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: perform
>            Reporter: Markus Karg
>              Labels: strategy
>
> The release plugin has built-in strategies for preparation and performing of a release. For example, the strategy for preparation contains increasing versions numbers, comitting to SCM, tagging in SCM, and so.
> Not all users share the same strategies in real life. For example, some companies might want to have a tag AND and a branch created in SCM when preparing a release. Or other companies might want to have tag created for "prepared-release-1.0.0" at preparation, and replace it by "release-1.0.0" as part of release:perform.
> To provide better flexibility of such company-wide strategies, it might be a solution to introduce an interface "ReleaseStrategy" which acts as a worker for the prepare and perform goals (and possibly others). The current built-in strategy could be refactored to be a default-included "DefaultReleaseStrategy" for backwards compatibility, while users could configure a new property "releaseStrategy" to point to an Extension which provides a differently working strategy.
> To make this work, certainly the Strategy implementation needs to get passed a context which allows to fire actions like "tag version", "create branch", "change pom version" and so on, just as the current built-in strategy has.



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