Thanks that was my plan and use workflow to emulate as much of the release 
plugin functionality as possible (version verification for example).  I 
just wanted to be sure that was the best course of action and there wasn't 
a better way forward.

On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 10:38:08 AM UTC-5, Arnaud Héritier wrote:
>
> yes this one won't be compatible with workflow or freestyle jobs.
> You'll have to replace it with a call of "release:prepare release;perform" 
> with few parameters defined as workflow user inputs or freestyle parameters.
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Mark Bidewell <mbid...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> The primary usage is for the M2 release plugin integration.  We are not 
>> making use of many other features.
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 10:25:00 AM UTC-5, Arnaud Héritier wrote:
>>>
>>> It mainly depends of the usage you have of it.
>>> There are some specific features (post build deployment, snapshots 
>>> dependencies) which aren't available in others jobs types.
>>> The migration to freestyle jobs is probably the easiest one from now as 
>>> you may have a large part of maven job types features but you'll need some 
>>> manual configuration.
>>> Using the workflow is a solution but for now it doesn't cover all 
>>> integrations with plugins (contributions are welcome) and thus it may be 
>>> blocker depending of the current usage you have of it
>>> Arnaud
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Mark Bidewell <mbid...@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In my current position, I inherited a Jenkins server that makes heavy 
>>>> use of the Maven Project Type and M2 Release Plugin.  As Jenkins is moving 
>>>> forward, I am now understanding why many people do not like that project 
>>>> type due to the shims needed to support Java 6 builds.
>>>>
>>>> What is the future of the Maven project type? should I be making plans 
>>>> to migrate from it?  If so what is the best alternative (right now I am 
>>>> thinking workflows)?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
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