The Apache Software Foundation
The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Source-Release Assembly Descriptor, version 1.0.1.
This is a standardized assembly descriptor for use in the maven-assembly-plugin. Source-release artifacts are archives which contain the full project structure (sources only, no build output) that are the subject of an ASF release vote.
The new version of the descriptor fixes the erroneous inclusion of some build output in the source archive.
Please see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-446 for more details on the issue.
http://maven.apache.org/apache-resource-bundles/apache-source-release-assembly-descriptor/
This assembly descriptor should be coming to a parent POM near you, and should eventually be an automatic part of every ASF release. For now, it has been configured into the release process for Maven projects that inherit from maven-parent version 14 (also recently released). If you want to try out the source-release descriptor in the meantime, you can include a configuration like the following:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-4</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.apache.resources</groupId>
<artifactId>apache-source-release-assembly-descriptor</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<!-- NOTE: The fix for PLXUTILS-120 is crucial for the new
assembly descriptor -->
<groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
<artifactId>plexus-utils</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>source-release</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>source-release</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
<tarLongFileMode>gnu</tarLongFileMode>
<runOnlyAtExecutionRoot>true</runOnlyAtExecutionRoot>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Enjoy,
The Maven Team