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Vincent Siveton commented on MPH-39:
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It should be better to have a question/answer goal, something like:
{noformat}
#mvn help:ask -Dartifact=myGroupId:myArtifactId:myVersion
...
What do you want to know (0 to exit):
scm
<scm>
<connection>scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugins/trunk/maven-help-plugin/</connection>
<developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugins/trunk/maven-help-plugin/</developerConnection>
<url>http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/plugins/trunk/maven-help-plugin/</url>
</scm>
What do you want to know (0 to exit):
issueManagement
<issueManagement>
<system>JIRA</system>
<url>http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPH</url>
</issueManagement>
What do you want to know (0 to exit):
0
{noformat}
> New target to display useful information from a project
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MPH-39
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPH-39
> Project: Maven 2.x Help Plugin
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 2.0.1
> Reporter: Martin von Gagern
>
> When there is a bug in some library, you might wish to have a look at its
> issue tracking system, or at its source code repository to look if it has
> already been fixed. To do so, you need to know the group and artifact id of
> the library containing the bug, and then one can start looking at the pom in
> the local repository. In the case of multi-modules, this is likely to
> reference a parent, and not provide any URLs itself, so you repeat the steps
> for the parent, recursively.
> After doing so for three libraries today, I believe the help plugin should do
> this automatically. I could imagine three possibilities.
> 1. Integrate into the already lengthy help:describe output
> 2. Provide help:urls so you can do "mvn help:urls -DgroupId=some.group
> -DartifactId=buggy-library" and it would list all effective pom elements
> designed to contain URLs, probably excepting all developer and contributor
> URLs, and take care of proper inheritance.
> 3. Provide help:property so you can do "mvn help:property
> -DgroupId=some.group -DartifactId=buggy-library -Dproperty=project.scm.url"
> to get at single properties, again with inheritance handled by the mojo.
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