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Subject: Maven Developer Hangout Summary (2014-07-31)
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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 08:56:52 -0400
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Here's a short summary of yesterdays discussion:

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Manfred Moser

1) Alternative verifier use in maven-android-plugin for testing. Igor =
created an alternative verifier for use inside of M2E for integration =
testing that allows an integration test to be run from within Eclipse =
without having to install the plugin. The alternative verifier also =
allows multiple invocations with different versions of Maven. So if you =
want to test a plugin against 3.1.1 and 3.2.1, for example, this would =
be possible. This code will be released in the next few weeks. Manfred =
is attempting to remove the use of the maven-testing-harness in the =
maven-android-plugin with this new technique for integration testing.

2) New repository populator that takes a set of dependency coordinates, =
calculates the transitive hull and publishes them to a remote =
repository. This is a tool that uses Aether. Not sure what Manfreds =
plans are for releasing this or if it's already available. Manfred can =
speak to this as he wishes.

Herv=E9 Boutemy

1) Continued work on the Checkstyle setup for Maven projects. A nice way =
is being developed that doesn't force conformance to all rules at once. =
Rules can be selectively turned off so that adherence to the rules can =
be met over time without a huge disruption. Herv=E9 is continuing to =
test the setup with various Maven projects and the current plan is to =
release this new setup in about a month.

Mark Derricutt

1) Tiles plugin work is progressing and a release is planned shortly =
after some repository cleanup work. The Tiles plugin is a prototype =
version of a type of mixin for Maven. Some work needs to be done to sort =
out the proper merging of the models, and there may be other things Mark =
wants to explain but we'll likely see something soon.
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Jason van Zyl

1) Work on the JSR330 branch has 4 ITs failing, but this is due to some =
movement of deprecated code that I will have to revert. While doing the =
JSR330 work some investigation was done on removing maven-compat and =
there are some issues that need to be resolved. Trying to fully remove =
Plexus with JSR330 and get rid of maven-compat is an attempt at =
something that will resemble Maven 4. To make this work quite a bit of =
refactoring will be required and staged releases of plugins in order not =
to break users. A proposal will be sent next week on how we might =
proceed, but essentially involves finding efficient ways to find use of =
deprecated code and provide alternatives to the deprecated code that we =
are willing to support forever more.

Thanks,

Jason

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