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Change release announcement template?

by dfabulich :: Rate this Message:

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The release announcement template is here:
http://maven.apache.org/developers/release/releasing.html

It currently says:

> You can run mvn -up to get the latest version of the plugin, or specify
> the version in your project's plugin configuration:
>
> <plugin>
>  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
>  <artifactId>maven-XXX-plugin</artifactId>
>  <version>Y.Z</version>
> </plugin>

... but that's not true any more, is it?  In Maven 2.0.9, running -up
won't give you Surefire 2.4.3; you'll be stuck on Surefire 2.4.2.  (and
that's a good thing!)

Unfortunately, the new version of Surefire requires Maven 2.0.6 or higher
(for toolchain support), so users of Maven 2.0.0-2.0.5 have no way to
upgrade to Surefire 2.4.3; users of 2.0.6-2.0.8 will be auto-upgraded (and
can force an auto-upgrade with -up) and users of 2.0.9 will have to
specify the version explicitly.

I don't want to say all that in the release announcement template, right?
I think it should just say something like this, omitting discussion of
"-up":

> You can specify the plugin version in your project's plugin
> configuration:
>
> <plugin>
>  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
>  <artifactId>maven-XXX-plugin</artifactId>
>  <version>Y.Z</version>
> </plugin>

I'll just say something like that in the Surefire announcment I'm going to
make in a few minutes; if people like this wording, I'll modify the
template in the documentation.

-Dan

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