Hi, I would like to use the ideas from the Conventional Commits to automatically determine the next version for my release when releasing with the maven-release-plugin.
Since this is not yet a part of the current version of the release plugin I decided to give it a go myself. So far I have succeeded in creating a new VersionPolicy that does this and I'm wondering if the committers would consider including this idea or not. I expect my code will need some more cleanups and changes on my end before it can be included. Summary of what I had to change to make this work: In maven-scm ( https://github.com/nielsbasjes/maven-scm/tree/SCM-xxx-ChangelogTags ) - I had to add the functionality that a ChangeSet could contain the tags present on the commits as well. It is generic and I've added this functionality for gitexe and jgit. For gitexe I had to change the command used by the changelog command to get the tags. In maven-release ( https://github.com/nielsbasjes/maven-release/tree/MRELEASE-xxx-CCSEMVER ) - I extended the VersionPolicyRequest to include the connection to the SCM and a config parameter (right now a String) to configure the patterns to look for in the pom.xml of the project that is to be released. - I created a new VersionPolicy that examines the tags and commit messages and from this computes if a patch, minor or major version update is needed. To check it actually works I created a dummy test project that has this plugin: https://github.com/nielsbasjes/releasetester/blob/main/pom.xml#L94 So simply put: Should I file two jira tickets and put up the pull requests so you can review my ideas ? -- Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, Niels Basjes
