[jira] [Commented] (MNG-5987) Document the algorithm calculating the order of plugin executions.

["Hervé Boutemy (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Hervé Boutemy commented on MNG-5987:
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bq. Order of declaration is really unreliable and complicated to understand when it comes to profiles and parents, and I'm not sure was ever really well-defined (or at least well-documented)
it was documented and chosen that order of execution is not something you can count on: phases are ordered, mojos in a phase simply are not
and we never pushed this to making it random, whouch would have been one way to make people understand that order of executionin a phase is not expected to be controlled: that is the design (that so much people don't want to understand when we explain them again and again)

> Document the algorithm calculating the order of plugin executions.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-5987
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5987
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Christian Schulte
>            Priority: Critical
>
> Users continuously report issues regarding the order of plugin executions: repeating that this order is not expected to be guaranteed inside a phase is not convincing for them.
> The algorithm used to calculate the order of executions performed by Maven needs to be documented:
> - declaration order in the POM
> - inheritance merging from parent POM,
> - merging of profiles and other plugin containers,
> - the order of executions of multiple executions in the same lifecycle phase,
>  etc.



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