[jira] [Created] (MRELEASE-943) be more tolerant with project version

["Romain Manni-Bucau (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Romain Manni-Bucau created MRELEASE-943:
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             Summary: be more tolerant with project version
                 Key: MRELEASE-943
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-943
             Project: Maven Release Plugin
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Romain Manni-Bucau


In current version of maven-release-manager, the project version is quite strict and several cases are not handled preventing mvn release plugin to be used:

1- version aliases (<foo.version>${project.version}</foo.version>), it can makes sense to use that in some projects and is sometimes a way to avoid to spend nights rewriting multiple poms. This is ignored in hierarchic projects (at least 2 or 3 levels).
2- children not listing the parent. If the parent list children and children doesn't list the parent cause the goal is to let them be checkout directly then the child version is not handled by the mvn release plugin at all.
3- support autoVersionModules with multiple versions (just removing SNAPSHOT instead of applying parent version to all poms)

Would be great to at least have a flag to support 2 and detect properly or have a list of tolerated expressions as alias of the project version in the plugin (= tolerate 1). 3 is a nice to have.

Note: if it can help tomee project does it and the number of poms - ~251 poms (144 follow rule 2) - justified historically the rule 1.



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