Thanks for the response Mark. Are you considered an SCM committer/developer? I have a fix/enchancement I would like to submit and am seeking some guidance.
If we should take this strictly to the scm-dev list that is fine too. I don't want to create unnessary noice on the Maven list although there may be others would are looking to do this too. --- Todd Thiessen > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Struberg [mailto:strub...@yahoo.de] > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:06 PM > To: scm-dev@maven.apache.org; Maven Users List > Subject: RE: SCM plugin project > > Hi Todd! > > maven-scm defines a SPI + a few plugins for various SCMs. > But although the name of the project is maven-scm it is not > only intended to be used with maven only. There are other > projecs (e.g. continuum) which use maven-scm for accessing > SCMs without maven. > > The maven-scm-plugin on the other side is really a > maven-plugin! And maven-scm-plugin uses maven-scm to access > the SCM you are using. > > That's the reason why maven-scm-plugin uses the common parent > pom used for all maven-plugins (see maven-plugin-plugin for > more details) and maven-scm doesn't. > > > LieGrue, > strub > > --- Todd Thiessen <thies...@nortel.com> schrieb am Di, 13.1.2009: > > > Von: Todd Thiessen <thies...@nortel.com> > > Betreff: RE: SCM plugin project > > An: scm-dev@maven.apache.org > > CC: "Maven Users List" <us...@maven.apache.org> > > Datum: Dienstag, 13. Januar 2009, 18:47 I haven't gotten a response > > from an SCM plugin development person. > > Perhaps someone on the Maven list could guide me in the right > > direction. > > I would like contribute a fix to the SCM plugin. I am > trying to build > > the project but I have questions/issues. Who can I talk to > regarding > > these? > > > > Thanks all. And sorry for creating some noise on the Maven list. > > > > --- > > Todd Thiessen > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Thiessen, Todd (BVW:9T16) > > > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 5:13 PM > > > To: 'scm-dev@maven.apache.org' > > > Cc: 'Maven Users List' > > > Subject: SCM plugin project > > > > > > I have downloaded the source for this project have and > > have a > > > number questions/concerns. > > > > > > Most of the code seems be under the scm directory. ie: > > > > > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/scm > > > > > > There is a POM at the highest level, with an artifact > > ID of > > > maven-scm, which indicates many sub-directories as > > sub-modules. > > > > > > However, there is one sub-module that confuses me: > > > maven-scm-plugin. You would normally expect the parent > > for > > > this pom to be the parent in the higher directory. > > > > > > However, this isn't the case. Its parent is > > maven-plugins > > > which is a different artifact altogether. This really > > seems > > > to make building and versioning of the entire project > > confusing. > > > > > > Do you release the maven-scm project or the > > maven-scm-plugin > > > project? I naturally expected to release the maven-scm > > > > > project but the maven-scm-plugin stands out in that it > > > > > doesn't define maven-scm as the parent and it also > > includes > > > all the maven-scm submodule projects as dependancies > > by > > > explicitly specifying their version. How are the > > version > > > numbers of all these dependencies incremented when a > > new > > > version of the plugin is released? > > > > > > --- > > > Todd Thiessen > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
