Description

We increasingly have trouble with people downloading Maven 3 (as it is the latest and has been out a while) and failing to build GeoTools. Maven 3 is also built into the latest round of IDEs (NetBeans and Eclipse) and cannot be avoided much longer.

Finally Maven 3 is supposed to be faster allowing the build box to consume less resources.

I propose that the build script be updated to support both Maven 2 and 3.

Status

Voting has started, the activity has been scheduled after the change to Java 6:

• Andrea Aime: +0
• Ben Caradoc-Davies: +1
• Christian Mueller: +1
• Ian Turton: +0
• Justin Deoliveira: +1
• Jody Garnett: +1
• Simone Giannecchini: +0

Tasks

1. AA - Write patch to allow build using Maven 2 and 3 and submit via Jira;
   • CB: Review patch
   • BD: Review and update patch
   • JG: Applied patch to trunk - see GEOT-3615
2. Update the developers guide:
   • Install (Mostly update links and examples)
   • Maven
   • Review How do you deal with maven-3 timestamped snapshots efficiently?
3. Update the User Guide
   • Quickstart maven instructions
4. JD: Update the build box environment to make Maven 3 targets possible (optional as works with 2 and 3)
   • Install maven 3 on the build box, update the trunk build targets to use Maven 3 environment
   • Apply the patch when ready
5. JG: Release 8.0-M1 to test "How to cut a release" still works with Maven 3
   • How to cut a Release