As I understand, it has been a long time *personal* goal of KK to move as much stuff out of core as possible and into plugins. This would enable people to upgrade plugins to get bug fixes rather than having to jump off an LTS version of core and switch to TIP just to get a fix to a bug in e.g the maven plugin.
In this regard the Maven plugin has been a "special case" as it has been, for too long, tied to the version of Jenkins that you are using. My understanding is that this requirement has been resolved and therefore in line with his long term *personal* goals it was time to move the plugin out to its own repository so that people are now free to upgrade it independently. This has a number of positive benefits: - You don't have to wait for a release of core to fix a bug in the maven plugin - You can build a local -SNAPSHOT of the plugin and install it - It reduces the scope of the code that needs the "special" code signing keys for release >From my PoV it has one major benefit... you can remove that stupid project type completely... sadly KK does not *yet* share my view (hey, I've been banging this drum since 2007) so I suspect my *personal* goal will not happen for now :-( As for why he didn't send a reminder mail (as I think this topic came up in the governance meeting at least a year or two ago) before hand... I don't know, I suspect KK & Jesse were having a hangout party while hacking it out of core and just got too excited... perhaps even over-tired... -Stephen On 7 October 2013 21:04, Olivier Lamy <[email protected]> wrote: > What happened with the maven plugin? > Did I miss the announcement saying the scm location has changed? > Or an email asking if it will cause an issue to someone? > What is the technical (business?) reason to not ask? > > Cheers > -- > Olivier > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
