I recently opened a PR <https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1436> that has potential to significantly change (for the better in my opinion) the way our Maven build process works. I want to highlight this and get any feedback on potential issues that may come with this change.
I frequently run into the classpath version issues (especially with the recent module reorganization work) and find them extremely challenging to troubleshoot. I believe we have found the root cause (from the PR description): "When a module that uses the shaded plugin without a classifier is added to another module as a dependency: 1. Any Maven excludes added to that dependency are ignored 2. The Maven dependency:tree tool does not accurately report the transitive dependencies pulled in by that dependency" After making this change, a number of classpath version problems popped up as expected. However they are now easy to track down and resolve. Does anyone have any concerns with making this change? Are there things I'm not thinking of?
