[MCHANGES-279] ability to skip for Jira is offlince

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Auto Closed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6
• Component/s: jira

Environment

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$ mvn -v
Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 00:44:56-0800)
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.6.0_29, vendor: Apple Inc.
Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.6.8", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
{code}

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: cosmo
• Created: 02/Apr/12 22:21
• Updated: 12/Jan/16 20:12
• Resolved: 12/Jan/16 20:12

Description

maven-changes-plugin is great and compiles a nice Jira report.
We need an ability to skip the Jira report compilation. Jira instance may not always be available when on different network or completely disconnected from Jira.

<plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>2.6</version>
          <configuration>
          	<skip>true<skip>
                ...
          </configuration>
</plugin>          	

Skip flag above can then be parameterized.
I'm not sure if the plugin can be sensitive to --offline flag instead of <skip> flag.

When Jira is unavailable, current behavior just times out during the build. But build takes forever to complete waiting for times outs and retries.