Hello, I'm new in this list and the topic might have already been discussed.
I forecast to use the maven-release plugin to produce released software version. For me released means validated, ready to deploy. Before reaching this point I need some -SNAPSHOT and properly named .beta# with their scm tag. Having a dot before beta makes beta appearing before final and subversion. My question is, are there any existing solution which calculate the next beta number, creates the tag, changes version to beta# ( a bit like the release plugin does ) ? thanks, stephane