[HBASE-12121] maven release plugin does not allow for customized goals

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.98.6
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0, 0.98.10
• Component/s: build
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

Allows user to add goals to release procedure
mvn release:perform -Dgoal=<goal-name>
If no goal is specified default behavior is used

Example use case:
Release to private repository and upload artifacts but also want the tarball to be uploaded, not just the jars.
the following could be added to the release command
-Dgoal="-X package install site assembly:single deploy -DskipTests"
This will execute the release procedure and also upload the tarball along with all jars.

• Assignee: Enoch Hsu
• Reporter: Enoch Hsu
• Created: 30/Sep/14 17:37
• Updated: 06/Apr/18 17:54
• Resolved: 17/Dec/14 01:25

Description

Inside the pom under the maven-release-plugin there is a configuration that defines what the release-plugin uses like so
<configuration>
<!--You need this profile. It'll sign your artifacts.
I'm not sure if this config. actually works though.
I've been specifying -Papache-release on the command-line
-->
<releaseProfiles>apache-release</releaseProfiles>
<!--This stops our running tests for each stage of maven release.
But it builds the test jar. From SUREFIRE-172.
-->
<arguments>-Dmaven.test.skip.exec</arguments>
<pomFileName>pom.xml</pomFileName>
</configuration>

There is no property for goals so if the user passes in a goal from the command line it will not get executed and the default behavior will be used instead.
I propose to add in the following
<goals>${goals}</goals>

This will allow custom release goal options