[MNG-4485] Informational messages could be clearer regarding goal execution

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 3.0-alpha-5
• Component/s: Errors
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Paul Benedict
• Created: 07/Dec/09 00:20
• Updated: 03/May/16 20:21
• Resolved: 15/Apr/16 21:54

Description

As the lifecycle of projects are executed, these type of informational messages are emitted:
[INFO] — maven-clean-plugin:2.3:clean (default-clean) @ project-name ---

Based on my own team, I think there are three things to note:

• The plugin:version::goal can easily be confused with the the dependency artifactId:version:classifier format. Seriously.
• I don't think the @ symbol is natural to describe the project.
• The execution name probably could be suppressed unless DEBUG was on.

How about?
[INFO] — maven-clean-plugin:2.3 executing goal "clean" for project Project Name ---