Hehe Thanks Benson to put some coins in the troll machine :-) Well if evil is really ease the user's life so this plugin can be considered evil :-) You have some very convenient features such building dependent projects, javadoc etc.. So it's just a matter of not spending too long on configuring Jenkins using a ui :-)
Olivier (will not troll more) On 14 October 2016 at 03:33, Manfred Moser <manf...@simpligility.com> wrote: > I agree with Stephen .. avoid the Maven job type. In fact I would install > Daniel's > > https://github.com/daniel-beck/hide-maven-plugin\ > > I have spent many hours trying to fix broken builds with the Maven job > type only to switch to Freestyle jobs and they just work. There is a reason > why Eclipse Hudson declared the job type legacy and has an improved Maven > freestyle integration (but thats kind of beside the point when you look at > Jenkins). > > Also in terms of settings management and such I suggest to use the config > file provider plugin. > > I recorded a demo video about that stuff some while ago (for Sonatype in > the context of deploying to Nexus but applies generically). Its part of the > tips from the trenches series > > http://www.sonatype.org/nexus/members-only/video-gallery-2/ > free-training-sonatype-nexus-and-clm-tips-from-the-trenches/ > > Here are the two Jenkins videos > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpXksHynouk > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHJrqKf0cLk > > Also if you want to invoke maven from a shell script or so you might want > to look at the wrapper. > > https://github.com/takari/maven-wrapper > > Hth > > Manfred > > > > Benson Margulies wrote on 2016-10-13 06:59: > > > We've about had it with bamboo, and are dusting off our old Jenkins > instance. > > > > I recall some messages here about things _not_ to do with Jenkins and > > Maven. Do we avoid the 'maven build type' altogether and just run > > Maven from the shell, or is my memory faulty? Anything else. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > >