[MCHANGES-409] allow to completely skip github report

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.12.1
• Component/s: github
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Luc Maisonobe
• Created: 19/Nov/20 19:51
• Updated: 20/Nov/20 08:16

Description

When using changes plugin on a project hosted at GitHub, there is always

an attempt to connect to GitHub even when reportSet contains only changes-report and nothing related to GitHub.

 

This creates several problems. The first one was already identified with MCHANGES-378 with

the subsequents request MCHANGES-396 which are not yet solved.

 

A new one arose in recent days as GitHub does not support username/password authentication anymore and MCHANGES-400 seems to prevent connecting otherwise.

 

So basically for now, being hosted at GitHub completely prevents using maven-changes-plugin since it mandates connecting to an host that mandates an authentication method that is not supported. And this even when you do not want the GitHub report at all.

 

So it would be nice to have a configuration parameter that allows to completely skip attempts to connect to GitHub (and the same would probably be useful also for other reports)