[MNG-6881] Inconsistent property semantics against their names in Maven Model Builder

• Type: Wish
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.6.3
• Component/s: Inheritance and Interpolation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Michael Osipov
• Created: 28/Mar/20 13:07
• Updated: 24/Dec/20 21:31

Description

The model builder provides following properties:

• maven.build.timestamp, (build.timestamp),
• maven.version and maven.build.version.

From consistency's perspective, I'd either expect maven.build.timestamp and maven.build.version to contain the timestamp at which Maven was built and and the version of this Maven build.

But, it contains the timestamp of the currently built project while the other property still refers to Maven itself.

This is inconsistent. I'd expect everything build related to be in project.build.* and with project.build.timestamp/project.build.outputTimestamp.

• maven.build.timestamp along with the format property need to be deprecated and removed; resolved in project.build.timestamp/project.build.timestamp.format
• maven.build.version needs to be deprecated and replaced with something like maven.banner/maven.versionBanner.