Hi I have a plugin under sandbox ( download-maven-plugin [1]). This is a demo for MVN-5580 [2]
However, I am not able to build this plugin from scratch ( maven clean install). It complains about not able to discover mojo --- maven-plugin-plugin:3.2:helpmojo (help-mojo) @ download-maven-plugin --- Using 'UTF-8' encoding to read mojo metadata. Applying mojo extractor for language: java-annotations Mojo extractor for language: java-annotations found 0 mojo descriptors. Applying mojo extractor for language: java Mojo extractor for language: java found 0 mojo descriptors. Applying mojo extractor for language: bsh Mojo extractor for language: bsh found 0 mojo descriptors. Looks to me the check starts before the annotations got scan. work around: 1. build as 'jar' package first and switch to 'maven-plugin' package ( ie dont call clean) 2. use m2e to update the maven project, so that help mojo source got generate properly then run mvn install Have anyone seen this? Advice is very much appreciated Thanks -Dan [1] https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/sandbox/download-maven-plugin [2] https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5580