The concrete example I suffered from was https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRESOURCES-289 which forced me to stay on 3.1.0 (https://github.com/apache/jackrabbit-filevault-package-maven-plugin/blob/58ef9f5f28d8e54c4d26d35011b1caff570a1b1d/pom.xml#L111-L115).
> On 15. Aug 2024, at 13:35, Konrad Windszus <k...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi, > Although I do see the benefits from a Maven Dev perspective for Consumers > this is worse. > In the past often individual plugin versions suffered from regressions for > certain edge cases. > > Having individual separate plugins allowed consumers to deliberately use an > old version of one plugin (e.g. maven-resources-plugin) while upgrading all > others to the latest version available. > One example is maven-resources-plugin which suffered from some regressions in > the past. > > Instead I would rather try to identify the shared code and put it into a > library (new or existing). > Konrad > >> On 15. Aug 2024, at 13:13, Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net> wrote: >> >> Howdy, >> >> as am going over multiple plugins (as it is time to upgrade parent, some >> bugfix, etc), all I see is: >> * a LOT of code duplication across plugins (some even have comments like in >> plugin X "this should be shared with Y") >> * some "forcefully" pushed out "shared" artifact to share them across >> * just many too small codebases that needs a LOT of process/work effort for >> small gain >> * it is all chopped up into relatively small pieces >> >> Hence, we were already discussing this idea on Slack: what if we introduce >> maven-core-plugin? >> >> One single plugin that contains some "most common" Mojos? >> (nothing new under Sun, this would be the "a la Takari Lifecycle" >> situation, where one plugin delivers most common Mojos -- although there >> the incentive was build avoidance/incremental build). >> >> For start, we could consider all 'core' plugins (those referenced from >> maven like in lifecycle mapping) except: >> * m-compiler-p >> * m-surefire-p >> >> as they are complex on their own. >> >> WDYT? >> Tamas >
