Apache Parent POM 7 릴리즈

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Parent POM, version 7.

This POM provides a base configuration for ASF projects build with Apache Maven [0]. Besides some updated plugin versions, the most interesting change in this version of the POM is the inclusion of a
configuration for the Maven Assembly Plugin to produce ASF-compliant source distributions. Please see [1] for a detailed diff to the previous version.

In more detail, the Assembly Plugin configuration for the source distribution is part of the profile "apache-release" that was already introduced in version 6 of the parent POM. This configuration creates a ZIP archive containing the project's sources at the root module of the release process.

Projects with different needs regarding the source distribution and/or release process have the following options:

a) Create a custom assembly descriptor (see [2]) for the source distribution and set the POM property "sourceReleaseAssemblyDescriptor" to its name.

b) Disable the predefined execution "source-release-assembly" of the Assembly Plugin via the following POM snippet:

 <plugin>
   <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>2.2-beta-5</version>
   <executions>
     <execution>
       <id>source-release-assembly</id>
       <configuration>
         <skipAssembly>true</skipAssembly>
       </configuration>
     </execution>
   </executions>
 </plugin>

c) Configure the Maven Release Plugin to use another release profile than the predefined "apache-release" via something like this:

 <plugin>
   <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>2.0-beta-9</version>
   <configuration>
     <arguments>-Pcustom-release</arguments>
   </configuration>
 </plugin

Note: Version 2.2-beta-5 of the Maven Assembly Plugin is required for proper creation of the source distribution. Please be sure to check the plugin version used is not locked down to an older version in some of your downstream POMs.

Use the following snippet to inherit from this POM for your Maven managed projects:

 <parent>
   <groupId>org.apache</groupId>
   <artifactId>apache</artifactId>
   <version>7</version>
 </parent>

Enjoy,


-The Maven team


[0] http://maven.apache.org/
[1]
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/pom/trunk/asf/pom.xml?r1=766951&r2=893966
[2]
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/examples/sharing-descriptors.html