[jira] [Created] (MNG-6189) WARN if maven-site-plugin configuration contains reportPlugins element

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

Hervé Boutemy created MNG-6189:
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             Summary: WARN if maven-site-plugin configuration contains reportPlugins element
                 Key: MNG-6189
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6189
             Project: Maven
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Inheritance and Interpolation, Sites & Reporting
    Affects Versions: 3.5.0-alpha-1
            Reporter: Hervé Boutemy
            Assignee: Hervé Boutemy
             Fix For: 3.5.0-alpha-2


with MNG-4162, a bunch of reporting logic was removed from Maven core.
This was globally successful, but not on one topic: it was expected to remore pom's {{reporting}} section and replace it with a normal {{reportPlugins}} parameter in maven-site-plugin.
We later discovered that with this normal parameter, we missed one crucial feature: report plugins inheritance, which would require a new mechanism MSITE-484
Then we reverted our instructions in maven-site-plugin documentation MSITE-647: the new {{reportPlugins}} parameter is just an implementation detail, but should not be used by end-users, {{reporting}} section remains the way to configure report plugins MSITE-684

Now adding a warning in Maven core when it detects a {{reportPlugins}} parameter in a maven-site-plugin is easy to do, will help users come back to normal {{reporting}} configuration, and will permit future enhancements (we need to finally completely clean-up the situation we created with this story...)



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