Hi, I've encountered the following exception:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects/corleon-site/trunk$ mvn release:prepare -Dusername=arikkfir [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'release'. [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Building Corleon [INFO] task-segment: [release:prepare] (aggregator-style) [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] [release:prepare] [INFO] What tag name should be used? RELEASE-1.0 [INFO] Verifying there are no local modifications ... [INFO] Checking lineage for snapshots ... [INFO] Checking dependencies for snapshots ... [INFO] Checking plugins for snapshots ... [INFO] What is the release version for 'org.corleon:corleon'? [1.0] [INFO] Checking in modified POMs [INFO] Tagging release with the label RELEASE-1.0. [INFO] What is the new development version for 'org.corleon:corleon'? [ 1.1-SNAPSHOT] [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] groupId was null [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Trace java.lang.NullPointerException: groupId was null at org.apache.maven.artifact.ArtifactUtils.versionlessKey(ArtifactUtils.java :47) at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.helpers.ProjectScmRewriter.restoreScmInfo( ProjectScmRewriter.java:51) at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PrepareReleaseMojo.execute( PrepareReleaseMojo.java:259) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo( DefaultPluginManager.java:399) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:519) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal (DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:482) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:452) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures (DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:301) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:214) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:137) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:316) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:113) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:249) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java :39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Total time: 28 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Sat Nov 12 02:33:49 IST 2005 [INFO] Final Memory: 3M/6M [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- My POM extends another POM which defines the group ID (the child POM has no group ID). When I add a groupId to the child POM it works ok. File a JIRA on this?
