[MNG-7092] Core mechanism for skipping mojos

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Peter Palaga
• Created: 01/Feb/21 15:14
• Updated: 09/Feb/24 16:37

Description

The current practice is that mojo authors have to implement skipping on their side. It is easy to do, but it has a couple of disadvantages:

• Not every mojo has a skip option
• The naming conventions differ among mojos
• Performance: the dependencies of the mojo need to be resolved, downloaded, classes loaded and initialized, config injected only to eval the skip option and do nothing. I have collected some numbers in https://peter.palaga.org/2020/10/29/skipping-maven-mojos-properly.html .

I wonder if Maven core could provide a mechanism for skipping mojos without the above drawbacks?

There could be some global naming convention, so that -Dorg.my-org.my-maven-plugin.my-mojo.skip or just `-Dmy.my-mojo.skip` would skip `my-mojo`.

WDYT?

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-7691 Provide a generic way to skip Maven Goals for a specified plugin
• relates to: MNG-8049 Provide a generic way to "target" some step in build