[MNG-6754] Set the same timestamp in multi module builds

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.6.3
• Fix Version/s: 3.8.2, 4.0.0, 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories, Deployment
• Assignee: Michael Osipov
• Reporter: Michael Angstadt
• Created: 30/Aug/19 18:08
• Updated: 14/Jul/21 11:54
• Resolved: 12/Nov/20 11:17

Description

When multi module snapshots are built using Maven, the version timestamp may be different for each module. This makes it difficult to quickly reference a historical snapshot of a multi module project, which is something we might do when determining when a bug was introduced.

This Stack Overflow question provides a good example of the problem.  The accepted answer seems like a reasonable solution, but does not appear to work. Looking at the code, there does not appear to be a way to override the timestamp.

Please add a way to use a consistent timestamp for all modules in a build.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: MDEPLOY-221 deploy generates wrong timestamps in maven-metadata.xml
• is duplicated by: MDEPLOY-236 deploy generates wrong timestamps in maven-metadata.xml
• relates to: MRESOLVER-144 Maven Resolver deploys version metadata multiple times
• supercedes: MNG-6274 Snapshot timestamps of modules in multimodule build are not aligned
• supercedes: MNG-6694 generated maven-metadata.xml gives wrong snapshot version
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #76
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #381