Maven versioning and Subversion

[Andrea Malagodi <ma...@mac.com>]

I face a challenge in applying the concepts of versions in our use of  
Maven in combination with Subversion and was hoping someone could  
give me some pointers. Today we employ a svn repo where we apply code  
in trunk and at release time create a branch, which we test and  
evolve to a point where we have signoff for a release at which point  
we tag that revision. However during this process we are not really  
sure how we employ the use of the POM version, we feel that the  
following options are open;

1. Change the pom.xml that is following the branch with an scm  
reference to the branch and a pom version to reflect the branch,  
which culminates in a change to the tag eventually
Issue: so now our Continuum server is building the trunk and the  
branch at the same time, it seems confusing and messy if you have 150  
projects building that suddenly you need to support 300 builds at any  
one time

2. Ignore the trunk as long as the branch build is occurring and  
change the Conitnuum reference to the branch pom and change the scm  
in the pom to reference the branch
Issue: so I now have no idea what is happening on the trunk, what if  
my branch is alive for 3 weeks

Anyway I hope you get the gist, I am a bit lost how to apply the  
versioning across these 2 components, svn and maven/continuum - help  
is much appreciated

regards


Mr. Andrea Malagodi
Tel: +41 79 445 5603
malagodi@mac.com
http://www.pixelaspects.com